[rerdavies]

Pretty sure that was 25 years ago, not 10 years ago. And then, 20 years ago, we were coming to terms with the fact that all of that stuff was a spectacular failure. And then, 15 year ago, we had found much better ways to do things.

I don't miss that phase of the evolution of software development practice at all.

[zzzeek]

I'm not talking about UML or waterfall. Talking more about formal methods which were still pretty common here amongst the various lisp/haskell/clojure discussions etc. I'm pretty sure this is still a relevant technique for certain classes of software.