Dear Ed, (01)
> The trick is not to be excessively geeky. My late mentor, Dr. Selden
> Stewart, once observed that all modeling languages are BLAs -- boxes,
> lines and annotations. As long as you stick with class boxes/balls,
> association/property lines/wires, and text labels (annotations), you
> don't violate the "anti-technical" prejudices of "business persons". (02)
[MW] OK. If that is your objective then I will throw what was originally (as
far as I know) the CDIF (CASE Data Interchange Format) notation into the
ring. This consists of named boxes for classes/entity types and named arrows
for relationships/relations, where the direction of the arrow tells you
which direction to read the relationship name in (and nothing else). So you
could have: (03)
A --part of--> B, or
A <--has part-- B (04)
My experience is that this notation is not only very simple, but very easy
for anyone to read. (05)
Regards (06)
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