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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: file attributes
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.221045.7024@ico.isc.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 22:10:45 GMT
References: <1818@sranha.sra.co.jp>
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:

> I.e. I want the information technology industry to get together to
> coordinate the plan(s) and write the specifications, *before* we
> implement. How many times do we have to take this lesson before we
> learn it?

This really comes down to "how many times do we have to reject the idea of
prototyping, and the idea of trying things out *for*real* (rather than
just on paper)?"

How many times do we have to learn that the "waterfall model" for software
development doesn't work, and that the mistakes it causes are dreadfully
expensive?

I'm sorry, but spec'ing and standardizing something this big, this radical
a change, before implementing (i.e., prototyping) and actually using it is
just too stupid an idea to be tolerated.
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...Simpler is better.