Has anyone used UML?

[phil hunt]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:07:30 GMT, Brett g Porter <BgPorter at NOartlogicSPAM.com> wrote:
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>"Harald Hanche-Olsen" <hanche at math.ntnu.no> wrote in message
>news:pcolmn9y349.fsf at thoth.home...
>> + Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au>:
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>> | No experience (I am in a similar situation to you wrt UML), just
>> | some advice: don't buy the O'Reilly book 'UML in a Nutshell' - it is
>> | the only O'Reilly title I have encountered which is truly woeful
>> | (most are quite good).
>>
>> Hmm.  Has it occured to you that this might be a reflection on UML
>> rather than on the book per se?
>
>Don't know about that -- I bought it (unseen) a week or so ago since I've
>never had bad luck with a book from O'Reilly. Until now.
>
>Now, I enjoy reading dense prose. But this is one of those books where I
>know less after reading a page than I did beforehand. It's about as clear as
>postmodern literary criticism.
>
>This is not a book for reading, this is a book for lying down and avoiding.

I agree with these comments.

The O'Reilly UML book isn't good.

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