[plt-scheme] Diagrams

On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Richard Cleis wrote:

> Hmmm.  I was required to produce this sort of end user  
> documentation once, and it was also a joke.  I was merely hoping to  
> produce something that wasn't a joke, this time.  Am I to conclude  
> that diagrams have no place in programming or its management?
>
> rac

I've used Visio (for UML) as a kind of a personal white board when  
working on program design, and as a tool to facilitate communication  
with others, and have found it very useful. But it is not at all  
clear to me that UML is an appropriate modeling language for FP. I  
fear that it could tend to foster designs that are not at all  
idiomatic. Beyond that, certain constructs (such as lazy lists) don't  
seem to fit at all.

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Gregory Woodhouse
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