On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:09:37 -0000, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that would indeed be nice. I am certainly not the only one who could use a language that is excellent for both research prototyping *and* the final, safety-critical system. Then perhaps the prototype could just be cleaned up and "hardened" for the end product rather than rewritten in another language -- by programmers in another state who may fail to understand many of the details that the prototype developer agonized over.
You should always plan on throwing away your prototype anyway (though few people do), because *something* in the architecture will turn out to be not what you thought. And if the programmers in the other state fail to understand the details, maybe the developer should have documented a whole lot more (he says through gritted teeth, having had the original code as the sole documentation far too many times). We return you to your regularly scheduled original point... -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
