The GML (GalacticModelingLanguage) is a modeling language with three elements:
	* The Box
	* The Line
	* The Label

GML diagrams mean what they mean when they are scribbled. The preferred GML CaseTool is a hotel pen and a beer-stained cocktail napkin.

Proposed by Kent Beck, not entirely a joke. E.g. slashdot story ''Is UML Really Necessary?'' : 'A while ago I saw Kent Beck talk at the Java user's group meeting here in Seattle. Someone asked him about UML. He made a derisive noise and sneered that he had come up with a better version called GML, Galactic Modeling Language. He said (and I am paraphrasing here) that GML had three components "Boxes, Arrows and Arrows Pointing to Boxes". '

''I prostrate myself in honor of someone who has finally cut through all the crap. -- PhlIp''

''Hear, hear.''

See also AdvancedFactoring.

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'''Real Life:'''
''(is stranger than fiction...)''
I was working for a vice president of a large corporation who was putting a lot of pressure on this division to reduce paperwork - '''by reducing the number of forms''' used. Eventually, I got sick of the whole game and said, '''''"OK, from now on we will have ONLY ONE FORM in this entire organization: A Lined Pad of Paper.''''' If you want anything, like inventory parts, a PO, a sales order, etc, just write all the necessary information on it and give it to the appropriate person. There; done; one form."

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Most of the time, I use GML++ (Box, Label, Line and Arrow). I guess that makes me some kind of counter-revolutionary around here ;-). -- FalkBruegmann
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Can be stored easily in a PersonalAnalogDevice

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See also GalacticModelingLanguageMetaModel, InterGalacticModelingLanguage

CategoryHumor (closer to HaHaOnlySerious, actually)