13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness

My buddy Jim Menard sent me this link when we were talking about comments Don Rippert made about the futility of MDA.

Don Rippert’s comments were (in summary) that by the time you got to any level of specificity in the model that the complexity of the models made them harder to follow than code.

I’ve been using Enterprise Architect to reverse engineer code by loading the code into EA and looking at the generated UML. I’ve given up and gone back to emacs.

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