RE: What Are Writing Skills?

Subject: RE: What Are Writing Skills?
From: Tony Markos <ajmarkos -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:14:20 -0800 (PST)


Oja:

What Yourdon is talking about is that systems are what
is referred to as asynchronous: Many things
potentially happening a the same time and many
possible branchings. Text is, however, synchronous:
linear, one thing after another.

Using a synchronous (i.e., one dimensional) tool to
try and describe an asynchronous (i.e.
multidimensional) entity causes problems. The bigger
the system, the bigger the problems.

Tony Markos
Show Me Your DFDs

--- "Oja, W. Kelly" <w -dot- kelly -dot- oja -at- verizon -dot- com> wrote:

>
> It might be that I am currently on a antibiotic
> cocktail, mebbe because
> I have been to Missouri a time or two. I just do not
> know what Yourdon
> is saying in this quote provided to us by Mr.
> Markos:
>
> "In terms of documenting systems, of course English
> Departments don't
> understand how to structure documentation! As Ed
> Yourdon (Data Flow
> Diagram guru) teaches: Systems are multidimensional;
> English (text) is
> one dimensional; it is not possible to effectively
> document a
> multidemensional system using single dimensionsional
> text."




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