From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-01-24T23:17:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Can large scale projects be successful implemented around a dynamic programming language?

On Jan 23, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Jordi wrote:

> A good article I have found (may have been linked by slashdot, don't  
> know)
> http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure

Well, I didn't find it to be a good article at all.  I felt it was  
just some guy speculating wildly about something he knows very little  
about.  He pretty much admits that, multiple times.

After reading the post, I followed a couple of the links.  I read a  
little and watched a podcast.  In just doing that much research (I've  
never heard of Chandler before), I felt like it was quite possible the  
project had trouble defining their scope and establishing their  
financial viability.  Perhaps it failed for those reasons.

Perhaps it failed because the entire development team converted to a  
religion that tries to minimize their computer usage.  I'm totally  
making that up and I mean no disrespect to the developers, but that's  
really my point.

If you watch the video podcast, it's interesting to see how many of  
the interviewer's, a self proclaimed Outlook fan, questions these  
"Outlook killer" developers don't really have a good answer to.  I  
feel that was much more likely to be damaging in the long term than  
their choice of language.

James Edward Gray II