Re: RFC - Prototype RFC Implementations - Seperating the men from the boys.

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:30 PM 9/11/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>Up until that point, it is wasted energy. At this point, without code
>there is nothing locked down, no cost in changing. (Yes, even though
>they are bits, changing software, changing architecture has major
>costs.)

Don't forget that changing architecture has costs, even without code 
backing it yet. There's still the mental costs of refiguring how it all 
fits together. (And it does all need to fit together--if the mental model's 
a kludged up hack, the implementation will be too)

This isn't to argue against making changes and reworking things, mind. Just 
pointing out that all changes have a cost.

                                        Dan

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