questions from using lint

Frank Adams franka at mmintl.UUCP
Mon May 26 12:19:02 AEST 1986


In article <6726 at utzoo.UUCP> henry at utzoo.UUCP writes:
>> ... Beyond a certain minimum size, design/code/debug is faster than
>> code/debug.
>
>Ah, but is design/code/debug/release/withdraw/revise/really-release faster
>than code/debug/try/code/debug/release? :-)

But now you're arguing about a different part of the process.  What I want
is design/code/debug/try/[re-design]/code/debug/release.  This often is
faster than leaving out the design phase.

>More seriously, I do acknowledge
>the need to have some idea of where you're going before you set out to
>get there.  And the degree of advance planning needed is indeed a function
>of project size.  But getting where you're going and then discovering that
>you really want to be somewhere else should be treated as a predictable
>part of the development process, not as a rare and surprising exception.

Agreed.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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