http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/ Random musings on fish, books and occasionally programming. Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:34:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Richard Kulisz Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:41:00 +0000 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/#comment-58 <p>Wow, I didn't know anyone was stupid enough to ignore Burn The Disk Packs. For the record, burning your prototype is EXACTLY what everyone should do. If anything, in this case the guy probably didn't burn it completely.</p> Wow, I didn’t know anyone was stupid enough to ignore Burn The Disk Packs. For the record, burning your prototype is EXACTLY what everyone should do. If anything, in this case the guy probably didn’t burn it completely.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Steve Cooper Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:41:00 +0000 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/#comment-57 <p>"At least one of the places where he was prototyping with Python also used Python as an official language."<br/><br/>Then I just don't get it.</p> “At least one of the places where he was prototyping with Python also used Python as an official language.”

Then I just don’t get it.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-56 CrashCodes Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/#comment-56 <p>I think you are confusing "Prototype" with the "Tracer Bullet" concept. Check out the book: "The Pragmatic Programmer".<br/><br/>I do understand the frustrations with people treating a perfectly good language as some kind of bastard child. My company has an application written in Delphi. Despite its success, management would like to get rid of it.</p> I think you are confusing “Prototype” with the “Tracer Bullet” concept. Check out the book: “The Pragmatic Programmer”.

I do understand the frustrations with people treating a perfectly good language as some kind of bastard child. My company has an application written in Delphi. Despite its success, management would like to get rid of it.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Giles Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:56:00 +0000 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/#comment-55 <p>At least one of the places where he was prototyping with Python also used Python as an official language. As far as I could tell it just never occurred to him to treat the prototype as a solid piece of work.<br/><br/>It was a prototype, therefore bad.</p> At least one of the places where he was prototyping with Python also used Python as an official language. As far as I could tell it just never occurred to him to treat the prototype as a solid piece of work.

It was a prototype, therefore bad.

]]> http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Steve Cooper Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.overwatering.org/blog/2008/02/prototypes-and-real-applications/#comment-54 <p>A possibility;<br/><br/>He knew python, but it wasn't an in-house official language. His boss was lenient in letting him choose the prototyping language, but after version 1, he couldn't get help from teammates. The benefits of working in a C++ team outweigh the benefits of working alone in python.</p> A possibility;

He knew python, but it wasn’t an in-house official language. His boss was lenient in letting him choose the prototyping language, but after version 1, he couldn’t get help from teammates. The benefits of working in a C++ team outweigh the benefits of working alone in python.

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