No, I was not saying that UML itself is a visual programming language, but that the people behind UML (read; Jacobson) has been, for many years, and is - at least up until last year - working on a way to produce executable code directly and solely from a modelling language. This could be within UML (would be a good idea to build upon a well-founded platform), but could as well be another (UML-looking/related) modelling language. As noted earlier, I do not have the handouts with me, but these are the words of Jacobson himself (early 2003).
I was not reffering to the ROSE ide from Rational, but to the plans of Ivar Jacobson. I'm 'on the road' for the moment, but have at home some hand-outs from a conference in Copenhagen, in which Jacobson gives his personal view on future development tools. One of these (and a favoured child of Jacobson) was an all-visual OO ide, generating code 'behind the scene'. Sorry for the Forenglish.
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No, I was not saying that UML itself is a visual programming language, but that the people behind UML (read; Jacobson) has been, for many years, and is - at least up until last year - working on a way to produce executable code directly and solely from a modelling language. This could be within UML (would be a good idea to build upon a well-founded platform), but could as well be another (UML-looking/related) modelling language. As noted earlier, I do not have the handouts with me, but these are the words of Jacobson himself (early 2003).
Ah, yes. Jest about it, but the UML-people has been working on visual programming for years. Perhaps there is a mutual interest... UMSL?