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On Jan 9, 3:38=A0pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> There are some criticisms about UML, among these, one wich I share :
> not easy to communicate with peoples with a such complex notation. BON
> is much simpler.

A quick look suggests that BON is roughly equivalent to the subset of
UML which brings about 90% of the value.

> Perhaps the reason why UML is so much popular is beceause of a good
> marketing strategy which help it to reach this level of
> celebrity, .... or perhaps beceause it is good.

Ragbag of notations so each person on the project can choose which
subset to use (people have been known to think they had to use every
UML feature: that way lies madness and bankruptcy).

Lack of precise definition so it's not obvious you haven't really
thought through the problem.

Of course, both of those can be fixed; if you're going to generate
code, they have to be.