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barbecue_sauce on May 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: IT Runs on Java 8

Asking as someone who cares about aesthetics a lot more than most developers, what does UML have to do with aesthetics? UML is for modeling systems and relationships through agreed upon conventions, and sometimes generating code stubs based on those diagrams. As long as you adhere to the conventions, the aesthetics can be changed as necessary.

munificent on May 20, 2019 [–]

It's a visual language. It exists entirely to be consumed by human eyeballs. Aesthetics are the user interface for that process.

barbecue_sauce on May 27, 2019 | [–]

But you can customize its aesthetics.

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