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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Learning from Python: PEPping the PHP Development Process
From: chregu@bitflux.ch (Christian Stocker)



On 27.8.2004 9:58 Uhr, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

> Christian Stocker wrote:
> 
>> Actually, other people i talk to are always impressed, how this 
>> "chaotic", based-on-common-agreement developement process actually 
>> works at all ;)
> 
> 
> Well, one reason might be no matter how fuzzy the process
> there are some very clear metrics for the result, like
> e.g. "compiles", "passes tests" or, a little more fuzzy
> but still rather fact-based, "works". And you can apply
> all these to different scales of changes. Combine this
> with the fact that the effort needed to implement changes
> does not include any noticable cost of creating a copy
> first and you'll find that creating software is very
> different to other forms of science, engineering and
> art.

I wanted to compare it to other software projects (notably I spoked to 
some Mozilla guys about that topic and also some 
"commercial/proprietary" software developers), not to science et al.
I'm an engineer by education, so I wouldn't dare to try to compare PHP 
developement process to eg. building a sewage plant (yeah, I learned how 
to do that ;) )

chregu


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