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by cybrexalpha 1309 days ago
Nothing. Because UML was pointless to begin with.

As a medium to describe systems it was harder to understand that just a flowchart, and less specific than just reading the code code. A useless halfway house.

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I tend to sympathise with this view, but I think one interesting thing which it tried to accomplish was code-generation or auto-verification, in a way it was an interesting early form of no-code in this regard

Also it is quite useful to understand sophisticated class dependency diagrams.