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The UML specification is 796 pages[0]. It is amazing how humanity can take simple concepts like flow charts and inflate them into insane, hyper detailed legalistic rule books that almost no one understands or uses.

0 - https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5.1/PDF

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If you complicate things enough you can sell consultancy and certifications.

This also applies to modern IT security

and as we all know - really complicated security models are the very bedrock of a sound and secure system.

/sarcasm

Red Hat/IBM.

Atlassian.

Google/Amazon

On the other hand, where would we be today without:

  13.5.11 A_signal_signalEvent [Association]

...that thing. These are men who really, really wanted to be on the PL/1 committee so many years ago. They missed their calling, like so many of us.

that kind of motivation can be summarized as "money" or "a lot of money". This combined with copious amounts of narcissism.

You could also add in the page count for the specifications of SysML, DD, MOF, OCL, QVT and XMI.

I've never heard of any of these

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