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It died because big tech companies realized that their real customers are reserve banks; big tech companies are being paid for job creation, not product develop
by cryptica 5y ago
It died because big tech companies realized that their real customers are reserve banks; big tech companies are being paid for job creation, not product development. UML allows companies to build high quality software faster so it destroys jobs.
- kstrauser 5y agoIf UML did any such thing, IBM would be a trillion dollar company by now.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> UML allows companies to build high quality software faster so it destroys jobs. Multiplying per-worker output in a field whose output isn’t limited by capital or raw materials doesn’t destroy jobs, it creates them.
- rswail 5y agoUML has never done anything of the kind. I've never read any case studies outside of marketing that claimed that UML increased software quality in any concrete and measurable way.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> UML has never done anything of the kind. That may be true, I’m just saying even jf it did, that wouldn't make it a job killer but a job enabler. The whole reason computing is a growing field is it keeps inventing ways to multiply its own output. If that caused the field to shrink, the progressive move from punch cards to IDEs would have destroyed the field.
- cryptica 5y agoThe kind of software which creates more jobs is not what I would call 'quality software'. Quality software gives people more free time, it doesn't consume more time. The fact that most people can't see the difference today is disturbing. It's a sign that we are trapped in an inefficiency mindset. We're always looking to solve problems in ways which create more problems instead of solving problems once and for all and then focusing on different problems.