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From: jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com ((JM Ivler) MDC - Douglas Aircraft Co. Long Beach, CA.)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: discarding prototypes
Message-ID: <443.25447952@devsim.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 24 Oct 89 15:01:37 GMT
References: <1142@svx.SV.DG.COM> <34399@regenmeister.uucp> <5296@eos.UUCP> <14081@well.UUCP> <1989Oct19.021306.7336@ico.isc.com> <440.253dce97@devsim.mdcbbs.com> <1989Oct22.162619.2780@world.std.com>
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In article <1989Oct22.162619.2780@world.std.com>, madd@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
> In article <440.253dce97@devsim.mdcbbs.com> jmi@devsim.mdcbbs.com (JM Ivler - MDC - Douglas Aircraft Co. Long Beach CA.) writes:
> |> In article <14081@well.UUCP>, shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
> |> EVERY prototype should get tossed.
> |We have developed a library of "tools and tricks" that allows us to create
> |prototype stubs and keep them around, not only for ourselves, but for others to
> |share with. [...] Never throw away the work. Put it
> |in a library where others can view it and learn from it.
> 
> I don't think people are arguing about saving basic tools used in
> prototypes, only about code used in REAL prototyping, where you are
> building something to deal with a hitherto unknown or unused
> technology.
> 

I was seeing quite alot of "throw out the baby with the bathwater" mentality.
Rapid prototyping provides a foundation for determining untried design
concepts. It is *not* deliverable code, just the stub concept. We keep it
around so others can learn from one engineers experiences.


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