1/ Hot take:
I'm at the "stick to convention and swallow your pride to get it #phdone" stage of my #phdlife. But, I'm going to vent on here and say that I don't think ODD, ODD+D, and things like beautifully-rendered UML are useful.
And, often, they are harmful.
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4/ Code communicates a model. Well-written code clearly communicates a model. You can't understand a model without reading the code. Everything else communicates intention.
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5/ Intention is a good thing to convey. But more often than not, these things just facilitate quick skimming -- another institutional demand. The result is a perception of understanding without understanding over an ever-growing set of invalid models that have pretty façades.
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6/ Again, it can be a useful adjuvant. But when you delude yourself into thinking diagrams are capable of fully-communicating a model -- and invest your time in them accordingly -- your model usually that suffers. (And, your docs and code probably end up temporally mismatched.)
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