Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!usenet From: John Sellers Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs? Followup-To: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 23:53:00 PDT Organization: BEST Internet (415) 964-2378 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sellers.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:33437 comp.lang.smalltalk:24336 comp.lang.sather:1918 comp.lang.python:4995 comp.lang.eiffel:9205 comp.lang.c++:128774 comp.lang.beta:450 In Article, write: > ... > Why oh why do people insist on using the term Prototyping in conjunction > with Information System development? ... Like it or not, Programming in this day and age is an art. The technology is changing so fast that every project I have worked on the last several years has used different technology. Under those circumstances, this is not something you go out and do the same time after time. It is different time after time. What is more, the difference between technologies as you move from company to company is large. I have never been in two companies that used the same base development environment, or the same environment in the same way. So the best that you can do is to prototype in order to get real. Those concepts which are not tied down well enough to put numbers to are the concepts you had better prototype to find out if it is fish, fowl, or demon from hell. Again, programming is an art. Think of prototype as "study", just as an artist does before he attempts his Master Piece. At least that is the way it was when artists were artists, master pieces were master pieces, and computers were candles with scratches on them.