It actually was a problem. From the article: > In his book on Business Object Notation, Bertrand Meyer lists twenty-six competing methods. I remember reading

It actually was a problem. From the article: > In his book on Business Object Notation, Bertrand Meyer lists twenty-six competing methods. I remember reading documents that listed over fifty, but I can’t seem to find them again so it might be a false memory. I also distinctly remember how difficult it was to learn from other's designs. Back then, there was no Stack Overflow or Google. Developers like me obsessed over the latest books (like this new Design Patterns book, have you heard about it?!?) It isn't a problem today because that's not how design ideas get communicated anymore. You have blog posts, and GitHub repos with examples and Markdown. This is better. But in the mid to late 90s, UML really helped. Disclaimer: I was on many of those OMG committees for Model Driven Architecture and UML back in its heyday. I've also sat in Sushi restaurants after conference proceedings during dinner with some of the people mentioned in the article. The talk was of how we were going to change the industry. I smile to think of how things moved on without our dreams. :)