Re: OT:Some thoughts


hal9000 wrote:

>
> You could be right, its just that I would think it very hard to do the
> sorts of projects the engineers using RosAsm,

40 years of software engineering has taught us some fundamental truths.
Among them, on large projects (multiple people) it's important to break
up the project into small modules that can be worked on independently
of the rest of the project. Without this fundamental capability,
effective software engineering falls apart.

Rene may claim that this doesn't apply to RosAsm. But just note that
his project, after seven years of development, is just now approaching
"medium size" in software engineering terms. In software economic
terms, that's a disaster.

Forcing people to write "monolithic" applications is not something that
is viable beyond the one-person project. Of course, Rene argues that
software engineering researchers don't know what they're talking about.
But why should we expect any different from the only guy on the planet
how *really* knows how software ought to be written? :-)
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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