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Is UML Really Dead, Or Only Cataleptic?

Posted by kdawson on from the pining-for-the-fjords dept.

danielstoner writes "Recently UML was pronounced dead as a tool for all programming needs by an article posted on Little Tutorials: 13 reasons for UML's descent into darkness. The author suggests UML was killed by, among other causes, greed, heavy process, and design-by-committee. Is UML really a fading technology? Is it useful beyond a whiteboard notation for designers? Is there any value in code generation?"

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  1. damn TLA by frovingslosh · · Score: 0, Troll

    Will /. ever start defining tla's that it uses? Seems unlikely, given this is far from the first time one has been used with no explanation. The article doesn't bother to ever use the full name of UML either. For what it's worth, after a Google search, I think that this it talking about Unified Modeling Language, but of course I could be wrong. They might even be talking about University of Massachusetts Lowell or User-mode Linux for all I know.

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