[Zope-CVS] SVN: Sandbox/ Creating an area for *throw-away*
prototypes
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Thu Nov 18 12:24:40 EST 2004
Log message for revision 28472:
Creating an area for *throw-away* prototypes
It is *important* to note that the practices for throw-away and
evolutionary prototypes are totally different.
For a throw-away prototype, the goal is to explore a problem
you don't understand by trying things out. It's pointless to
document and write tests. It would be counter productive. It doesn't
really matter what the code looks like. Speed of implementation
is important, because you want to try things out quickly. You don't
want to waste time thinking about apis, etc.
When you understand a problem, or at least think you do, you can
start writing the evolutionary prototye (a.k.a. the final system ;).
You may still throw it away, or refactor it, but the expectation
is that what your working on will evolve into something of value.
At this point, it's time to start doing things right. It's time to
start following Zope 3 practices. At this point, the code should
move into the Zope 3 tree, or into a separate project.
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