Re:Who uses UML? (Score 1)

Both participants seem to be objecting to a statement of their own making: "a great promise of UML is that any system can be adequately represented by using class diagrams only". UML, and its components, is just another tool to help people to communicate. One definitely can imagine the world where all the information is being exchanged and communicated only via written form of spoken language (the mentioned "thoughtful paragraphs"), but I've seen people who - strangely enough - prefer maps to written directions when getting from place to place; I am not even talking about those who need to capture distilled information about geographical area - it's maps, not words, that serve the purpose best. As far as "factoring in real-world requirements" - I would be glad if someone showed me what tools are excellent - forget that, passably good - no, simply acceptable - at doing that. Yes, a written document might be the best to capture all the intricacies and one-of-a-kind peculiarities, but there is nothing that prevents you from tying that to a UML use case, or doing it the other way around - embedding a few UML diagrams (appropriate to the case, mind you, not a class diagram when you are describing a behaviour!) into your document. In other words: 1) tools still cannot do the thinking for us (...and we really hoped that this time it will actually be the case); 2) do not label UML as crap when too many crappy "analysts" claim that they are UML gurus - laptops did not stop being great invention just because so many idiots are using them! Regards.