Model Driven Development

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Bruce Adams" <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:op.uf9eapy9xikks4 at starquake.cybernetics...
> Hi,
>    I don't know if this has come up before but is always worth a review 
> every so often. As far as model driven development goes
> are there any tools out there currently that support or plan to support 
> code generation for D and round trip engineering
> (that is syncing the code back into the model). I'm also curious as to 
> peoples opinions on model driven development in general
> (please keep the religious flame wars to a minimum though eh :).
>

I assume you're referring to the use of UML-oriented tools.

Not aware of any for D, but then I haven't really been looking. I've never 
really seen much of a need for them, outside of getting acclimated to an 
unfamiliar codebase with poor documentation. When I'm brainstorming or 
communicating, I'll often jot down ideas on paper using a seat-of-the-pants 
psuedo-UML, but that's about as much use as I've ever really had for UML. I 
can write/conceptulize/refactor code just fine with an ordinary text-based 
code editor. Don't really see any added value in switching between that and 
a "coder's Visio". But that's just me.