Rational-Rose and Python ...

[Bill Scherer]

Warren Postma wrote:

> > It sounds like the modelling wasn't your primary problem on that project.
>
> Yes, probably. However, I find most new technologies, in attempting to
> overcome a developer's resistance to trying something new, end up oversold.
> A nice thing about Python, IMHO, is that because it's a language to which I
> have the source code, it's not oversold. If it can't do something, I can
> make it do something [like Christian Tismer's Stackless Python].
>
> I think the same would be true for UML.  The Tigris stuff looks exciting for
> the same reason. If there's something my Case tool won't do, I can go in and
> add it, send a patch, and it might even get put into the program.  In other
> words, the latest ROSE doesn't do much for me, even with it's much enhanced
> two-way tools, but an open source UML tool might end up being just as handy
> as Python itself. Even better if it worked from inside
> Python/PythonWin/IDLE/etc, and was truly "compact" in much the same way as
> Python is.
>
> Warren
>

agreed.