Architect and Design first... what a novel idea.
Lets bump that 20 years up to 60 years though. Steve 2008/11/6 Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> So where does this leave us? Well >> if more people took the time to cast their vote (one vote per person >> please) >> we may be able to draw some conclusions from these polls. Without that the >> waters are still a little murky as far as WOA is concerned. > > People's opinions, and whether or not we know them, cannot change the > kind or degree of architectural properties present in the software > systems we build. > > So far, as an industry, we've figured out two ways to answer questions > like "Is the Foo style better for what I need to do?". The hard way > is to actually build the system and see if it exhibits the desired > properties. The easy way is to apply what we've learned of the study > of software architecture over the last 20 year or so, and figure out > what properties the system will have before hand. The latter approach > is a few orders of magnitude cheaper of course, but unfortunately the > bulk of the industry seems set on the former. > > Mark. >
