From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-01-03T11:17:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30096] Re: Ruby/Python: Software Engineering

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:30073] Re: Ruby/Python: Software Engineering"
    on 02/01/03, noone <nanotech@europa.com> writes:

|> I feel like methodologies belongs diffrent level of abstraction.
|> Languages (and their features) are tools, and software engineering and
|> methodologies are how to use tools.
|> 
|
|When this is said, I hear that a separation exists ("different level
|of abstraction").

I guess it's easy for you to distinguish a "kitchen knife" and "how to
use a kitchen knife".  The former is a concrete tool, the latter is
abstract "how-to".

|To what degree are they separate? Are languages interchangable without
|affecting how I do my work (the process)?

Some methodologies are targeted toward specific tools, so that you
have to modify / customize them to adopt different tools.  In that
sense, they are NOT "interchangable without affecting how you work".
But I guess methodologies still remain same methodologies after
customize, for example XP is XP even using C++.

							matz.