the types of diagram and their visual syntaxes and symbol sets actually are pretty much the whole of UML, and there's no textual component that goes with them
the sole purpose of a UML model is to communicate information about systems' structure between people (i.e. it isn't a "modelling" language in the sense of "simulation", and doesn't give you ways to predict how the system will behave other than thinking very hard about it in the conventional non-UML-based way).
Are those accurate? Because neither one was something I was entirely sure about before this conversation, so I'm learning new facts here which I suspect most UML people would have seen as so basic that they'd have forgotten to tell them to me.
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- the types of diagram and their visual syntaxes and symbol sets actually are pretty much the whole of UML, and there's no textual component that goes with them
- the sole purpose of a UML model is to communicate information about systems' structure between people (i.e. it isn't a "modelling" language in the sense of "simulation", and doesn't give you ways to predict how the system will behave other than thinking very hard about it in the conventional non-UML-based way).
Are those accurate? Because neither one was something I was entirely sure about before this conversation, so I'm learning new facts here which I suspect most UML people would have seen as so basic that they'd have forgotten to tell them to me.