[FRIAM] Seaside (Smalltalk web development framework)

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Phil Henshaw wrote:
> There are many fascinating issues here, but I think the two main reasons
> good stuff gets dumped are that things that work a) usually break rules
> that make people feel uncomfortable about change, or b) would put
> investors at a temporary disadvantage competitively, and so get filtered
> out despite long term advantages.
>   
I think all of Owen's reasons turn out to be variants of his #3 
reason.   If you have the belief that there are preferred tools for 
different kinds of jobs, and you do different jobs to achieve a larger 
goal, then you should expect to be facile with different kinds of tools. 

If the tools conflict instead of complement each other, there is a 
problem.  The typical problem with many `beautiful' (e.g. academically 
developed) tools is that they have trouble interoperating with standard 
tools.  And further, those that claim their tools/frameworks are so 
wonderful may in part be right but also may in part be guilty of patting 
themselves on the back a bit too much.  While possible, the idea that 
university or hobby software can be better than software developed by a 
multi-billion dollar corporations doesn't jump out as a likely scenario.

Interoperability is God, and failing to provide it is a fine reason for 
a software project to fail!