[FRIAM] Whitespace

[Douglas Roberts]

I sometimes get sideways with people during the design phase of a project.
I'm a big believer in rapid prototyping as partial design tool, but I often
find that many people are of the "Waterfall" SW design philosophy, and can't
adjust to the concept of writing some code, and then throwing it away once
the refined design becomes more obvious.

Of course, there is always the threat that sombody will fall in love with
either the prototype or (worse) the prototyping environment and then proceed
to misuse the prototyping tool, typically by pushing it beyond it's
capabilities.  Living inside an IDE often feels like that.

-- 
Doug Roberts, RTI International
droberts at rti.org
doug at parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On 9/11/06, Raymond Parks <rcparks at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Douglas Roberts wrote:
> > An equally reasonable alternative suggestion: write every app as an APL
> > one-liner (no indentation nor whitespace needed).
>
>    And it can be write-only (no reading and modifying).  Which, of
> course, is why we keep trying things like WinFX - so that there's some
> chance that you can pick up the code I generated two years ago and
> change it.  I'm just a cynic, but sometimes I think we spend more time
> and effort writing code to be reusable and modifiable than if we just
> rewrote it every time we needed to change it.
>
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