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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 19 Nov 2011 20:04 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 19 Nov 2011 01:17 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 19 Nov 2011 00:45 : \____
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>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 18 Nov 2011 13:51 : \____
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>>>>>>> Homer wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
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>>>>>>>> You should try cscope too:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't done more than toy with cscope.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't even use ctags much; have gotten very familiar with the code
>>>>>>> over the years :-).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Github (proprietary) can highlight changes well if you work upstream.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 20. bouml or umbrello for creating UML diagrams
>>>>>>
>>>>>> People still use those? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Sequence diagrams are my favorite diagram. I have code in my library
>>>>> that will generate event timestamps, very useful to make sure all threads
>>>>> are doing the right thing at the right time.
>>>>
>>>> I did some UML diagrams when I was 19, but it seemed like a waste
>>>> of valuable time.
>>>
>>> UML diagrams are very useful for communicating the broad brush strokes
>>> of an architecture to someone else.
>>>
>>> For myself, I find them useful to make sure I don't forget the
>>> exact layout of a complex set of structures.
>>>
>>> UML is just another view of code. Not necessarily the best view all the
>>> time...
>>
>> Maybe at another level. From what I've seen of it, it's for
>> business scenarios workflow.
>
> Well, bouml and Rational Rose purport to support full round-trip
> engineering with their stuff. That is, draw a diagram, fill in the
> members, fill in the functionality, fill in the comments, and generate
> code. Then tweak the code, and generate the UML again.
>
> I can't really see it working well. Hell, Microsoft can't even make a
> decent code wizard.
Rational Rose seems to have advanced a lot then. Back when I was using UML
it was rather pointless from an engineering POV.
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