Comments on Inconsequential ranting: 0th reason for UML's demise

A Computer Science professor here, preparing a cou...

2012-01-16T21:53:37.277Z

A Computer Science professor here, preparing a course on Software Engineering. UML is in the syllabus, and after wading through textbook after textbook, I was thinking "This is bullshit, isn't it? How can it be taught everywhere, and be in so many textbooks, if it's bullshit?"

Thank you for convincing me that I'm not going insane.

Seriously: it's nice to have a standard set of symbols for class diagrams etc., and a tool for drawing them. But there's nothing more to UML than that. There never was.

I agree - I also found this post by googling '...

2010-09-09T01:18:06.378+01:00

I agree - I also found this post by googling 'uml bullshit'. I've been working with a bunch of UML guys since the start of the year, and their zealotry for patently trivial and obvious has driven me batshit insane some days.

THANK YOU. I am completing the second assignment i...

2010-02-23T09:05:05.073Z

THANK YOU. I am completing the second assignment in two days, for different classes, that requires me to use this "language" (I'm a computer science major, for pete's sake). I am so sick of it that I googled "UML bullshit" and your post came up. You described my feelings perfectly. I feel as though so many of these frameworks are cobbled together by employees simply to justify keeping them on staff.

I also don't appreciate the condescension by those who insist on constantly using UML to demonstrate workflows that you rightly indicated as being "patently obvious". Just because I am a computer scientist doesn't mean I can't understand a simple workflow.