On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:44:20PM +0400, Yaroslav Rastrigin wrote:
> Rep. Ok, I'm not claiming WM _is_ rewritten, but I know from experience -
> if you could quickly prototype something in scripting language, it will very
> likely stay so, instead of properly coded. Eventually, over time software
That depends on what sort of prototype you are looking to build.
Throw-away prototypes are in my experience usually inadequate, since it
delays working code further and goes against customer/user expectation
("well, it was almost working when I saw it, what went wrong with it?").
Working from a prototype into the full system is a better alternative in
the majority of instances.
Obviously you have corner cases everywhere, so for a specific project a
throwaway may be justified. However, it's more often not.
Take care,
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Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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