[dorian]

lol i suppose i should clarify that royce's paper is "generally credited as being the origin of waterfall despite actually advocating against it" or something to that effect. i know boehm refers to it but didn't know boehm was the one who originally (ab)used it as a straw man, so thanks for that. ;)

[dorian]

oh yeah ps the specificity gradient (https://youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w which I recorded much later) is stewart brand/frank duffy "shearing layers"/"pace layers" stuff; see https://doriantaylor.com/shearing-layers-applied-to-the-web