Re: newbie, Spark 2014 or Ada 2012

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

On 07/09/2015 03:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> Would you say the same thing about making a bookshelf?  Lots of people
> make bookshelves with home tools and not much planning or engineering.
> Cue the jokes about the million dollar bookshelves built by the US
> military.  The home tool approach is much quicker and more cost
> effective and you get a perfectly usable bookshelf.

So when does this bookshelf that doesn't need to be correct, robust, and
reliable need to ship? This is a red herring. It has nothing to do with what
we're discussing.

> In construction terms, there's a spectrum ranging from "bookshelf" to
> "suspension bridge" and civil engineering starts becoming important
> somewhere in the middle of that scale.

Engineering becomes important when the thing will be used by others. That's at
least 99% of S/W.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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