Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "I Hate UML" video.

  1. no one says that you have to use UML all the time. an advantage of a Class Diagram is that you can have many classes on the screen at once. i've found state Activity Diagrams more useful than Sequence Diagrams (probably because these are basically automata). the ability to generate the boilerplate code from UML is a small bonus. i rarely need them but i think it really depends on the project. i could see them being useful for games
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  2. how about neither? this seems like a bad argument
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  3.  @limpiadora  not using a class diagram, does not free you from those details
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  4. ​ @limpiadora  you don't have to include all the details in a class diagram. you also don't have to stick to the diagram. just like you don't have to stick to a plan. but it can help when you are dealing with a lot of classes or a large inheritance hierarchy and you want to have an overview or communicate an idea. i agree that it is usually a waste of time, because most projects i've worked on are so simple, that i can directly write the code
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