On 13/03/2006, at 5:38 PM, Art Isbell wrote:
On Mar 12, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Ian Joyner wrote:
But maybe my unease with these systems is that they seem more file-
based because that's "the way computers and Unix work", rather
than patch-based which would result from thinking about the
development process at a high-level of abstraction.
darcs (<http://abridgegame.org/darcs/>) claims to be patch-based.
Thanks Art, Darcs looks like some impressive thought has been put
into it, and it's written in Haskell (so we can Curry our
functions!). Must admit I was in analysis and design mode yesterday,
coming up with some radical ideas for one of our products because we
were getting vague requirements, more indicating a radical rethink
was needed and I was very much in why-would-you-want-to-do-that mode,
and with some working out user scenarios and fundamental redesign, we
might make a lot more people happy.
Alas, I have too frequently seen development managers who have hardly
written a line of commercial code in their lives pushing gannt
charts, flow diagrams, and all sorts of other tools and then the code
that arises from these is so appalling that you wonder what they were
for. Good tools in good hands yes is worth it. But as Bertrand Meyer
once said, he realised while shaving one morning why the diagramming
folk liked diagrams so much and avoided programming (which they saw
as something for a lesser breed of person – the programmer) – it's
because "diagrams don't crash".
However, my projects are now at a point where we will have to be more
disciplined, so I might look into Subversion and Darcs myself, but I
think I'd really like to see a development environment where all of
this was integrated and I did not have to learn several different
tools – SCM seems like more of an afterthought in Unix environments
(but then Xcode is just some wrapper on the Unix C-based development
environment :-( ). It also leaves me wondering if WebObjects
programming is that simple.
Ian
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