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simont ([personal profile] simont) wrote 2006-12-13 06:34 pm (UTC)

OK. So, notably:
  • 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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