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That's not a fault of UML. I can't read Greek but that doesn't make it unreadable. Everything is hard to read before you know how to read it.
by michaelcampbell 6y ago
That's not a fault of UML. I can't read Greek but that doesn't make it unreadable.
Everything is hard to read before you know how to read it.
- water8 6y agoYea but, why do we have to speak in Greek in the first place?
- canada_dry 6y agoSo consulting companies can make bank teaching you how. After convincing the CIO that 'GREEK' is the silver bullet to their problems. /s
- kragen 6y agoBecause that's the language the laws are written in. If you don't speak Greek, you don't know what the law is, so you'll break it. That's a bad idea. If you're living in the Byzantine Empire, that is.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoSame can be said about English with regards to programming. Most people don't have English as a native language.
- bccdee 6y agoYeah that's why I normally write documentation in English instead of Greek. That way, when people read it, they don't need to learn a new language. Besides, that's only half of my criticism. Greek is at least a full language where you have the flexibility to phrase things however you want and inject detail wherever you need. UML is a very rigid language which makes it hard to emphasize certain elements over others. A text has a reading order and a logical progression; UML is spaghetti. If you're gonna write your docs in a different language, at least pick a good one.