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One of the challenges of the UML is that it means different things to different people, and the priorities of those who develop the UML are not the same as all the UML’s users. In this talk I’ll talk about these purposes of the UML and what I think these mean for the UML’s future.
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Fowler, M. (2003). What Is the Point of the UML?. In: Stevens, P., Whittle, J., Booch, G. (eds) «UML» 2003 - The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45221-8_27
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