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This post is intended as support material for another post of mine; see michael.gr - Towards Authoritative Software Design.
The Universal Modeling Language (UML) (Wikipedia) was intended to be a standard notation for expressing software designs,
and to replace the multitude of ad-hoc notations that software architects
have been using on various mediums such as whiteboard, paper, and
general-purpose box-and-arrow diagram-drawing software. The idea was that
by following a standard notation which prescribes a specific way of
expressing each concept, every diagram would be readily and unambiguously
understood by everyone.
It has miserably failed.
