Re:Ask HN: Do you still use UML?
by lostcolony on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:54PM
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And of course, the fact that there is always a grammar. That grammar might be images being linked together, it might be text, but it ultimately comes down to learning a grammar, breaking down your problem to fit it, and then building a solution using that grammar. Changing the grammar only really makes the first part approachable, and that's not actually the hard part.
"The common man" often seems to think that mastering the syntax of a programming language is the hard bit, and that replacing textual syntax with some pretty graphics will magically make software easy to build.
Of course, the real challenge is accurately specifying what you're trying to accomplish, and exactly how you want it to happen. Everything else is just window-dressing.