Has anyone used UML?

[Brett g Porter]

"phil hunt" <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 03:07:30 GMT, Brett g Porter
<BgPorter at NOartlogicSPAM.com> wrote:
> >
> >"Harald Hanche-Olsen" <hanche at math.ntnu.no> wrote in message
> >news:pcolmn9y349.fsf at thoth.home...
> >> + Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au>:
> >>
> >> | 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.
>
See -- if only I'd-a thought to ask here about this before hitting that
'submit' button and ordering it.
<g>