Hacker News Reader

Grady Booch / Rational went overboard with UML. UML is very nice when used in moderation but basing all development on their tools and creating exportable to code designs as they envisioned is total madness.

View on HN

That was not Grady Booch’s doing. His vision was not for UML to become a full blown programming environment. It was meant to be a disposable thinking tool for developers, which is more how people are using it now.

See for example, https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1405569

Reply on news.ycombinator.com