From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7ceb00d83425e3a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Prototyping with Ada References: <0d254195-50cb-4bad-b776-8d5c2ab09b6c@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <878wy9uyg9.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87zlqptajv.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <7f3435c6-bacb-4e02-a1de-2e73a417ba6c@w4g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <87r6c0sei2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87k5hsrqbi.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> <8e953413f88u9slj1es57kuegqdvn908ul@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <8e953413f88u9slj1es57kuegqdvn908ul@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2qDYj.118178$TT4.102662@attbi_s22> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1211302654 12.201.97.213 (Tue, 20 May 2008 16:57:34 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:57:34 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:57:34 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:269 Date: 2008-05-20T16:57:34+00:00 List-Id: 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 62