UML tool for Linux?

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In article 3E239DBB.1010003@colebatch.com,

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Dmitri Colebatch dim@colebatch.com wrote:

My uninvited 2c:

Tim Bates wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 03:23 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:

What good is UML? I mean, it seems to me that especially with languages
like Ruby you could just code your OO system and then refactor as needed.

I haven’t actually used UML before, which is why I’m only just looking for
software for it. The reason is, I come from a strong engineering background
(father was an engineer, I’m now studying engineering myself) and as such I
find it helpful (sometimes even necessary) to get my ideas on paper, draw
diagrams etc.

I find exactly the same thing - I go through forests of paper just
scribbling static class diagrams when modelling problems. But I dont
use any tools, and wouldn’t suggest them to anyone (I’d also be
interested to hear of reasons for using them).

I’m currently trying to get my head around the relationships
between a significant number of classes and modules. Being a fairly visual
person, I want diagrams, but rather than try and do it with conventional
pen-and-paper methods, and end up as I usually do with lots of lines and
scribble and crossings-out, I thought I’d give UML a shot.

Remember that UML is a language, not a process (as I understand it).

But isn’t it a visual ‘language’, or am I missing something? I thought
it was a way of visually showing relationships between objects and
classes.

Phil

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Senior VP, Communications
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I think there already is-- we call it ‘Ruby’ :wink:

~ Bruce

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On Tuesday 14 January 2003 04:18 pm, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

Why couldn’t there be an equivalent notation that was text-based?
There probably is, but I don’t know of it.

Just my $0.01

Hal

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Remember that UML is a language, not a process (as I understand it).

But isn’t it a visual ‘language’, or am I missing something? I thought
it was a way of visually showing relationships between objects and
classes.

yeah, thats what I thought I was saying. A couple of posts have (imho)
implicitly extended the use of UML to include code generation and
round-tripping. You can quite easily use UML without a tool. Pen and paper
works perfectly well.

thats all I was trying to say (o:

cheers
dim