charles.green (6/26/2014)

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Several have commented that the current trend seems to be toward text with the feeling that text is more accurate. I think that the opposite is true, text has become much less accurate in every dimension of communication and is no more accurate in database descriptions. Much has been written about the rise of the "texting" vocabulary in all aspects of communications and it coincides with the general degradation of the written word in society. With mounting evidence that text is less and less precise how can it be a more precise representation of a concept than a visual representation that is prima facie accurate and not open to the interpretation that text is? I have been waiting years for good and affordable graphical tools to use in engineering and reverse engineering databases and applications as both time saving devices and as higher level abstract representations of the code and just when I thought they were arriving they seem to be going away. This is a sorry state of affairs for current work and advancement of the discipline.:(