Post by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.com"Spend your old pennies in sixpenny lots."
I read that today and had completely forgotten it!
What - you read it elsewhere, independently? And then subsequently read
it here? After over 50 years of not reading it?
I looked up decimalisation after you mentioned it, I think.
Post by n***@nowhere.comThats a bit of "Dee Ee".
Post by UltraVThinking about it, it was a huge exercise, lots of planning, lots of use
cases to consider. Does that phrase go back that far? My guess was no,
but it might have been in use in specialised language.
What phrase? "SYOPiSL"?
"use case"
Ah.
Yeah.
Post by n***@nowhere.comIm pretty sure "use case" isnt in a lot of companies dictionaries
*today*. :(
Sadly, I think you are right.
[update]
Just had a <snif> around.
From WP:
===
In 1987, Ivar Jacobson presented the first article on use cases at the
OOPSLA'87 conference.[1] He described how this technique was used at
Ericsson to capture and specify requirements of a system using textual,
structural, and visual modeling techniques to drive object-oriented
analysis and design.[2] Originally he had used the terms usage scenarios
and usage case – the latter a direct translation of his Swedish term
användningsfall – but found that neither of these terms sounded natural in
English, and eventually he settled on use case.[3]
In 1992 he co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use
Case Driven Approach,[4] which laid the foundation of the OOSE system
engineering method and helped to popularize use cases for capturing
functional requirements, especially in software development. In 1994 he
published a book about use cases and object-oriented techniques applied to
business models and business process reengineering.
===
Then he joined Booch and Grady and the UML etc was developed.
I do wish he had stuck with "användningsfall" though! :)
Post by n***@nowhere.comPost by UltraVPost by n***@nowhere.comIt was used after the first phase of decimalisation was complete. It
goes back to at least 1972. Maybe that was always the intention and it
was all planned out in 1968 (when the first decimal coins were minted)
or even earlier?
Understood, for SYOPiSL. :)
Post by n***@nowhere.comThere must be a book about it somewhere. If only there was somewhere to
look up stuff like this. :(
If only! :|
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