Thanks, Marc!  I appreciate the feedback.

- Leon

--- In executableuml@yahoogroups.com, "mjbalcer" <marc@...> wrote:
>
> Every so often it's good to be reminded of the fundamentals. Too
> often, as you say, people seem to think that meaning can only be found
> in procedural code. There's a ton of meaning just in the way we
> organize the information in a problem.
>
> Some of you working in the real-time area might think that those who
> build systems using relational databases might be doing the kinds of
> thinking Leon presents here. Sadly, the more that databases just
> become a back-end to Java (and other languages') code, the less such
> thinking actually takes place. Not only that, but the very mechanisms
> that a relational database provides (such as constraint checking)
> don't get used--and instead developers go about re-building these
> mechanisms themselves.
>
> Nicely done!
>
> -- Marc Balcer
>