I like state diagrams, but someone told me that they predate UML, I don't know, they're useful. The bad thing about UML was demanding all kind of diagrams for

I like state diagrams, but someone told me that they predate UML, I don't know, they're useful. The bad thing about UML was demanding all kind of diagrams for every project, whether it made sense to do it or not. UML is neither the only "method over common sense" software ideology out there nor it will be the last one.