RE: Re: Development: A Structured Problem Area?

Why is the expression of requirements separate from the code?  Are you
viewing these as separate entities because the design of most languages
is lower level than the language you express requirements in?  It seems
to me that if you write a solid abstraction layer for your business's
systems, then the code should more closely resemble the language of your
business requirements.
 
Take a look at something like AppleScript, where the code is written
more like natural English.  Certainly, structure is still required for
the interpreter to understand it, but my wife can look at it and tell
you what it is doing.

Now, if you have your core processes abstracted (using Java, or whatever
you like), and you can write code in something that is more readable
(even more so than AppleScript), do you still need to have separate
business requirements documents from your code?

I don't think it is that unreasonable to close the gap between the
language of requirements and the language we use to code our
applications.  There is still going to be a need for plumbing, but
closer to the user interface, things really should be much simpler than
they are now.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Irwin [mailto:greggirwin-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:27 PM
To: Greg Jorgensen
Subject: Re: [pragprog] Re: Development: A Structured Problem Area?

Hi Greg,

GJ> Perhaps the key is finding the right language for expressing
GJ> requirements.

Yes, and the "right language" is different for every problem space; we
need a lot of languages, domain-specific languages.

--Gregg




 
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