Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Szabolcs Nagy
* Uriel [2011-05-12 19:54:26 +0200]: > Fortunately somebody already has done some writing on the topic: > > http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/bmarticles/uml/page.html > it is also worth noting that even original contributors of uml find it problematic http://port70.net/~nsz/arti

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Uriel
So much retarded crap in this thread, it is hard to know where to start. Fortunately somebody already has done some writing on the topic: http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/bmarticles/uml/page.html UML makes CORBA and C++ look like sane, productive and useful technologies by compar

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Pierre Chapuis
On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:57:13 +0200, Nicolai Waniek wrote: On 05/12/2011 03:51 PM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: I still have to find any sane mathematical notation for parallelism in programming languages though... Of course CSP goes in this direction, but as soon as your language is not based on CSP

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 05/12/2011 03:51 PM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: > I still have to find any sane mathematical notation for parallelism in > programming languages though... Of course CSP goes in this direction, but as soon as your language is not based on CSP in any way, you yet again have to document describing the

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-12 Thread Nicolai Waniek
> I am > saying if your code needs UML documentation to be understood, then it > is not suckless. I fully agree. > Also, I tend to dislike auto-generated documentation because the > valuable part is very small and hidden among loads of crap. That depends on the tool you (have to) use. As an ex

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-11 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Nicolai Waniek wrote: > On 05/10/2011 04:57 PM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: >> Good code is supposed to be readable, and should need no >> UML diagram (and probably very few comments). > > Though you're right that it should not _need_ a UML diagram, having on

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 05/10/2011 04:57 PM, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote: > Good code is supposed to be readable, and should need no > UML diagram (and probably very few comments). Though you're right that it should not _need_ a UML diagram, having one isn't that bad either. This is especially true when you're not

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-11 Thread Nicolai Waniek
On 05/11/2011 07:02 AM, CHABOT Simon wrote: > I have already used it to draw graph, but never I never though to try it for > UML. I take a look ! In case you add documentation with doxygen to some projects, you can use it to produce UML diagrams of your classes. Doxygen itself uses dot... So usi

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread CHABOT Simon
Le mercredi 11 mai 2011 à 12:41:14, Connor Lane Smith a écrit : > On 10 May 2011 23:52, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > For suckless diagramming, I prefer Graphviz (also known as "dot") > > +1 > Graphviz is very pleasant to use. Never used it for UML, though. I have already used it to draw graph, b

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 10 May 2011 23:52, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > For suckless diagramming, I prefer Graphviz (also known as "dot") +1 Graphviz is very pleasant to use. Never used it for UML, though. cls

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Suraj N. Kurapati
On Tue 10 May 2011 04:36:04 PM PDT, CHABOT Simon wrote: > Could you give me some suckless softwares name to work with UML ? For suckless diagramming, I prefer Graphviz (also known as "dot"): http://www.graphviz.org You can draw UML diagrams with it, as this article illustrates: http://www.ffnn.

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread hiro
For my class this was the most efficient way: Begin to write your code in notepad and use the builtin "search and replace" function to create longer variable names, then copy-paste this mess to Netbeans, (create a few random classes with other people's names above them - this way nobody will blame

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread flo
On Tue, 10 May 2011 17:01:28 +0200, Mate Nagy wrote: honestly i'm surprised by this lack of reaction to "UML" + "suckless" in the same sentence. Usually this mailing list is swimming in bile regarding much more innocuous topics to the point of unreadability; so why not now? although I haven't

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM, CHABOT Simon wrote: >  I was thinking about a software where UML diagram is describe, and then >  compiled (something like LaTeX, you see ?) Someone managed to do that with MetaUML & EMP and made a tutorial about it[1]. Otherwise, UML pretty much suck by design, y

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 10 May 2011 17:01, Mate Nagy wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:50:01PM +0200, timow+...@diningphilosopher.de > wrote: >> On 2011-05-10, CHABOT Simon wrote: >> >  Could you give me some suckless softwares name to work with UML ? > honestly i'm surprised by this lack of reaction to "UML" + "su

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread CHABOT Simon
Le mardi 10 mai 2011 à 04:50:01, timow+...@diningphilosopher.de a écrit : > The best solutions I could find was UMLGraph (http://www.umlgraph.org/) > and MetaUML (http://metauml.sourceforge.net/old/index.html). MetaUML looks great, thanks ! -- CHABOT Simon Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Mate Nagy
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:50:01PM +0200, timow+...@diningphilosopher.de wrote: > On 2011-05-10, CHABOT Simon wrote: > > Could you give me some suckless softwares name to work with UML ? honestly i'm surprised by this lack of reaction to "UML" + "suckless" in the same sentence. Usually this mailin

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread timow+dwm
On 2011-05-10, CHABOT Simon wrote: > > Could you give me some suckless softwares name to work with UML ? The best solutions I could find was UMLGraph (http://www.umlgraph.org/) and MetaUML (http://metauml.sourceforge.net/old/index.html). Cheers, Timo

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Christophe-Marie Duquesne
If your program needs UML diagrams documentation, it sucks by definition. IMHO building such a tool would go against the suckless philosophy. Good code is supposed to be readable, and should need no UML diagram (and probably very few comments).

Re: [dev] Suckless UML

2011-05-10 Thread Niki Yoshiuchi
Good luck. UML sucks so I doubt there has been any attempt to make suckless UML software. If I were you I'd just struggle with crummy tools for a semester since you will never use UML again. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, CHABOT Simon wrote: > Hi all, > Today, an UML lesson have been given