Comment by hintymad

> Just because certain information has an essential complexity doesn’t mean that different representations are equivalently complex. There’s an essential complexity to the layout of the London Underground, but it would be considerably worse if you had to represent it with plain text files instead of maps or diagrams.

In general yes. I was only commenting on the assumption that UML can be of a general-purpose programming language, at least in the domain of business automation, or the idea that sufficient modeling can replace coding given the current technology.