Re: Prototyping with Ada

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

John McCabe wrote:
> 
> Thus you need to plan for the prototype to be thrown away, because
> then you start again taking into account the lessons you learned from
> the protoyping exercise.

Brooks, 1975: Plan to throw one away. This is accepted practice in HW. The fact 
that so few developers and managers understand that this applies equally to SW 
is a big part of the reason so much SW is poor quality.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it
while the first legion marched across. If programmers today
worked under similar ground rules, they might well find
themselves getting much more interested in Ada!"
Robert Dewar
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