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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Replying to @generativist
Certainly appreciate people's rejection/resistance to uml; especially bc it can be a time-sink. I often find it useful to read, tho. ...and if it doesn't match the code then there's an immediate validation concern, right?
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Replying to @CWDillon
Eh. Sometimes. But, more often than not I think it's symptomatic of UML not easily representing what code represents easily.
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Replying to @generativist
I get that, too. Easy-to-read UML is a simplification of (only part of) the code, which is a simplification of the system (as we see it), which is only a part of the world (that we subjectively perceive), ...
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I'd rather informal and ad-hoc XKCD-style diagrams. The formality of UML is part of the problem for me.
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