Blatorg

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   by Blatorg 10y ago

   To be fair, every modeling tool had terrible UX at that time - save for some domain-specific ones (e.g., NI had a great tool, but it only worked with their hardware components).
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   by Blatorg 10y ago

   If those advocates were sellers, then they were all proposing this as a panacea - and no tool is a panacea. Anybody who promises to solve all your problems is selling snake oil.
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   by Blatorg 10y ago

   Which is also a reason your are seeing more textual front-ends for UML.
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   by Blatorg 10y ago

   Actually, ERD are not specifically supported by base UML, but an approximation can be done using class diagraams and, with a little specialization (profile) the rest of ERD can be represented.
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   by Blatorg 10y ago

   I would say it really depends... There are UML diagram generators with whcih you might want to integrate (e.g., PlantUML) that would meet the needs of someone creating documentation. Alternately, they may use their own UML tool (or a free o