"Looser"--by which I mean not as strict.  (I assume UML is strict...)

Roy Pardee
Programmer/Analyst
SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Tacke [mailto:ctacke@r...]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:51 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: OO Design Tool


Is that "looser" notation or "loser" notation?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pardee, Roy E [mailto:roy.e.pardee@l...] 
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:29 PM
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] RE: OO Design Tool
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity--are you paper-n-pencil guys 
> hand-drawing actual UML, or some looser notation, or ...?  Is 
> UML worth learning?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Roy
> 
> Roy Pardee
> Programmer/Analyst
> SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT
> (xxx) xxx-xxxx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Straforini [mailto:marco.straforini@c...]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: professional vb
> Subject: [pro_vb] RE: OO Design Tool
> 
> 
> You lucky guy.
> Working in US I am forced to use a legal size pad...
> 
> Paul,
> 
> you do not need any fancy-smanshy tool (translate as you want 
> :), for my experience is it much better to save the time to 
> learn any of these tools for real programming. I used the one 
> that comes with DevStudio Enterprise, hated it and thrown it 
> away. If you work alone, a simple notebook or a black (or 
> white) board is enough. Usually 
> I use the white board so I can easily erase/correct, and in 
> the final stage I wrote it down. If you work in a big 
> company, then usually they already have their way to do it, 
> and you have just to learn it. I work in a department with 
> other ten engineers, some of them in offices in other parts 
> of the world ten hour of difference apart), we use plain 
> email and we are perfectly fine.
> 
> m.