December 2004 - Posts

• Graphical languages – semantics vs syntax

  Recent postings have talked about “semantics” of graphical languages. When I was involved in UML development this word caused a lot of argument and confusion. In my view, it goes like this. A graphical language has three primary aspects: concrete syntax, Read More... Posted Friday, December 24, 2004 10:19 AM by Steve Cook | 4 Comments

• New places to look

  The latest installment of our DSL tools is available for download here . Jochen Seemann announces it here . Jack Greenfield has started blogging here . Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:49 PM by Steve Cook | 0 Comments

• UML Semantics

  Grady has blogged about Microsoft’s position on UML . His article is a masterpiece of technopolitical spin. He says Microsoft “rejects UML”, and of course we don’t; as my colleague Alan Cameron Wills says, “we don’t want to limit ourselves to UML as a Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:01 PM by Steve Cook | 15 Comments

• Keeping the baby in the bath

  Xactium’s Andy Evans has written an interesting article on Language Driven Development in David Frankel’s MDA Journal . In it there’s a paragraph directed at me: In [2] it has been proposed that domain-specific languages have specific advantages over Read More... Posted Friday, December 03, 2004 4:05 PM by Steve Cook | 1 Comments