On Sep 9, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Greg Guerin wrote:
Try it. See what happens. Repeat as needed.
A lot of design questions can only be answered well by experience.
Either you already have the experience from an earlier project, or
you plan to get the experience by writing one to throw away.
If you're a newcomer to a language, there is almost no chance that
you'll do everything right the first time. You have to try things
and see what works and what fails. You can read books all day, but
you will eventually have to try some things that aren't in the
book. When you do, you will find that every situation has its own
unique set of constraints, even if they are slight variations on
what's in the book. Only the simplest things are exactly the same
as what's found in books.
All software is exploration. If someone had already done exactly
what you want, then you'd be using that existing software instead of
creating a new thing yourself.
Agreed, agreed and agreed. But sometimes you need something to obtain
lift off, something to get you off the ground. A friend, hard work,
schooling, and or experience help. For me the books and the
documentation were invaluable but so was trial and error combined with
a lot of hard work.
--Richard
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