It could be argued that rapid prototyping is modern software development.
In the late 80's and early 90's, rapid prototyping was very fashionable in the 'anti-waterfall' software engineering schools of thought. The idea was to use dynamic languages with good development tools (various Lisps, Tcl/Tk, Smalltalk) to rough out the idea, which would then be rewritten in 'real' languages.
Of course this tactic failed successfully! We shipped the prototype. Nowadays, it would seem absurd to develop a web application (for example) written in a 'real' language like C++ or PL/1.
In the late 80's and early 90's, rapid prototyping was very fashionable in the 'anti-waterfall' software engineering schools of thought. The idea was to use dynamic languages with good development tools (various Lisps, Tcl/Tk, Smalltalk) to rough out the idea, which would then be rewritten in 'real' languages.
Of course this tactic failed successfully! We shipped the prototype. Nowadays, it would seem absurd to develop a web application (for example) written in a 'real' language like C++ or PL/1.