Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!svc.portal.com!news1.best.com!news.best.com!tmb From: tmb@concerto.best.com Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk 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: 13 Jul 1995 19:11:56 GMT Organization: * Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: tmb@best.com NNTP-Posting-Host: tmb.vip.best.com In-reply-to: Neil Wilson's message of Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:10:45 GMT Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:33473 comp.lang.beta:459 comp.lang.c++:128905 comp.lang.eiffel:9228 comp.lang.python:5008 comp.lang.sather:1930 comp.lang.smalltalk:24361 In article Neil Wilson writes: | Why oh why do people insist on using the term Prototyping in conjunction | with Information System development? [...] | If it evolves into the system proper then shouldn't you have applied | correct control procedures at the beginning? After all it is now part | of your system. Why oh why do people believe that the purpose of software development is to build "systems" that are "delivered" or "applied"? Most software that is written is used maybe once or twice to solve a particular problem and then thrown away or cannibalized for other purposes. That fits the definition of a "prototype" pretty well. Thomas.