Simon Wacker

I know the term UML (Unified Modeling Language) covers a very big spectrum. It’s a topic everyone should know at least the basics about.
Well, and because of that I’m presently reading the book ‘The Unified Modeling Language User Guide’ from Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson. I really recommend you to read this book too if you are interested in Object Oriented Design/Concepts or just want to learn UML.
The possibilites the UML offers to model well designed systems is astronomical. While reading a new dream got born: a programming language which provides clean semantics to realize all these concepts in the real world.
And up to now I’m only on page 200. I wonder what comes next.
In my opinion before we invent a even better way to program then OOP we should try to imporve OOP till it becomes perfect. We shouldn’t always look out for new things. We should improve the old ones.
As you can see at the OOP example it lives since more than 40 years (I’m not really sure about that) and there isn’t a programming language that supports all concepts you could realize via OOP. It should be our task to build such a language. So that in the near futur it isn’t a dream anymore to build a system based on the UML with all the ideas and concepts it offers.

As you can see at my last post I’m still blogging and won’t stop. But at the moment I’m working on I few projects that really need all my attention. The next thing I’m gonna do is redesigning all the code that is connected with the VisibleObject class. I have already started planning. I am going publish all the steps of developing including UML diagrams, tests, examples etc.
I also joined a project on sourceforge.net. At the moment it’s just in the beginning phase but I hope it will grew with the time and become a useful source for all beginners and advancers.

Today I came across the new posts on zoode.org. And I suggest to you to visit his blog more often. His posts are worth reading. I really enjoyed his post about ‘The Hybrid Nature of ActionScript 2.0′. It’s a nice breakdown with a little bit of history about the becoming of the fist object oriented programming languages. But for all of you who doesn’t like history don’t be deterred it isn’t that much. The bigger part is certainly about AS 2 and what possibilities it offers to programmers in contrast to other languages.