From: "Brett H. Williams" <brett_williams@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T01:51:49+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

On Aug  7, Dave Thomas wrote:
> Brett H. Williams wrote:
> 
> >On Aug  7, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Design? Where's the productivity is design? You're only working when 
> >>you're typing, so the more you do, the harder you're working.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Yikes!  Maybe you can define working harder as more typing, but I don't see
> >that as productivity!
> >
> >Design leads to productivity because you don't have to retype things you
> >didn't plan carefully.
> > 
> >
> 
> Why do you have to retype things you didn't design properly? It sounds 
> to me as if you're making the basic mistake of programming: you must be 
> trying to run the code you write.
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> (drop even the smallest amount of bait into a big enough pond... :)

Yes, yes, you can all stop making fun of me now.  I accept the label of
being the only one dumb enough in this pond to bite :)

But Dave... given your tendency to emphasize how Ruby makes your thoughts
become working programs with minimal effort, I don't feel _that_ dumb.  You
_could_ have been making the point that using Ruby is so easy that you plan
as you type code.  And for some small things I could agree with that.

I doubt your project with 460 classes was done that way though :-o