UML History
UML was developed in an effort to simplify and consolidate the large number of object-oriented development methods that had emerged.
Object-oriented development methods
Development methods for traditional programming languages, such as Cobol and Fortran, emerged in the 1970s and became widespread in the 1980s. Foremost among them was Structured Analysis and Structured Design [Yourdon-79] and its variants, such as Real-Time Structured Design [Ward-85] and others. These methods, originally developed by Constantine, DeMarco, Mellor, Ward, Yourdon, and others, achieved some penetration into the large system area, especially for government-contracted systems in the aerospace and defense fields, in which contracting officers insisted on ...
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