Responding to editor...
> May 15, 2008. - Are Reports of UML's Demise Being Exaggerated?
> In an article entitled "13 reasons for UML's descent into darkness" Daniel Pietraru claims that "UML [has] lost the programmers." The author suggests that UML is becoming irrelevant to programmers due to causes that include design-by-committee syndrome, vendor greed, and concept bloat. Is UML usage waning or waxing? Is the quest for Round-Trip Engineering suffering a major setback? You can add your opinions to others discussing Pietraru's article on the "little tutorials" web site:
http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/15/13-reasons-for-umls-descent-int...
and Waterfall, which they see as the Great Satans of software
development. So they have been repeating these mantras for years. Don't
go down the rabbit hole by responding because it is a religious issue
for the Programming By Mantra crowd. For example, $nevermind that the
agile OOP-based processes all have well-defined waterfall processes at
the story and code fragment levels.
[Such discussions remind me of Haight-Ashbury coffee houses in the late
'60s. Someone takes a drag and proclaims something like, "Power to the
People!". To which there would be several responses like, "Yeah, man!",
"Right on!", and "You got it, man!" If some outsider was crass enough to
ask, "What power? What people?", that triggers another round of mantras
like, "The Power of Freedom!" and "Everyone being crushed by the
Establishment!". If the outsider continues the Quixotic quest for
substance, the ultimate chorus is, "You just don't get it!" and "You are
the Problem!" Been there; done that; grew up.]
FWIW, it is hard to see UML going away since it is currently the only
general purpose 4GL around. Anyone who believes that software
development is going to stagnate at the 3GL level should visit a local
retirement home and talk to some of the BAL developers of the '50s.
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