Infoworld: Grady Booch interview

May 31 2005

Really good insights from IBM Fellow Grady Booch on several topics, including blogging....

InfoWorld: What is your take on blogging and where that's going?

Booch: Ninety percent of everything is crap, so there are several million bloggers in this world and there's a lot of really interesting stuff that social scientists years from now will look at it and say, "Wow, we had a mixed-up generation."  But on the other hand, there are some real gems, and I follow a few blogs, because in these places it's a great way to see what's happening. I follow James Gosling's blog, I follow Wil Wheaton's blog. Alan Brown has a good blog. I was one of the first bloggers for IBM, and I'll be honest in saying it just utterly amazes me that I'm publishing direct to the IBM site and there are no lawyers between my fingers and the public world.

InfoWorld: Does that make the lawyers nervous?

Booch: Oh, I hope so. But I think it's great because it indicates that IBM recognizes that if they were to [impede] us it would totally destroy the value proposition of blogs.
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  1. 1  Eric Parsons startingblockcomputing.com | 5/31/2005 2:20:07 PM

    Is this the Grady Booch of UML and Rational fame? I've started a book that goes into some of that history, and what good reading.

    Now if Mr Booch could somehow make UML writers/diagrammers publish LotusScript(?)

  1. 2  Axel Janssen  | 6/1/2005 11:16:22 AM

    @Eric: You can use UML today to design lotusScript.

    I am doing it sometimes. Just with a pen a sheet of paper.

    There are no tools to create code from your model and model from code, though.

  1. 3  Eric Parsons startingblockcomputing.com | 6/1/2005 9:53:53 PM

    @Axel - Using Visual Paradigm (if one has the money for the add ins) one can "write" Java code in UML. I've not taken the time to play with it, but I can imagine that it would sure save time.

    Just thinking if I got off my wallet for a minute, writing the addin might be lucrative.

    Funny, I can remember in the ninties mentioning Actors, and getting some real strange looks. I love the stuff.