UML Esoteric? I think not. SysML, maybe so.
Recently I heard someone I respect say that UML is not used that often in real scientific (I guess he was implying intelligent, though I know some DUMB scientists) efforts.
From UML.org’s nice article on Visual Modeling:
UML has become the lingua franca of software development, allowing engineers to exchange their designs freely. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the software for the new James Webb space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013. To aid communication and help meet stringent reliability and performance goals, all the software being built for the telescope by NASA, the Canadian and European space agencies and all their subcontractors is being designed using UML.
Don’t even get me started about Model Driven Architecture. Its like the SemWeb… I want it to work. I really really do. I think a
