On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:59:07 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Frankly, I don't think the language much matters. It's all >> down to the skill of the programmers and testers. Ada >> wasn't the source of the problem unless Ada has a bug in >> it... which is going to be true of pretty much any >> language. Maybe Python would be a better choice, maybe >> not; but let me tell you this, if the choice of language >> means the difference between testable in three months and >> testable code in three years, I'm going for the former. > > Yes EVEN IF life or property hangs in the balance, the only important > decision is how much work YOU will be required to do -- Chris, why i am not > amazed by this bombastic display of selfishness?
I would like to say that you're not amazed because you're intelligent enough to understand what I was saying, but I'm not sure it'd be true. Let me spell it out for you. * Deadlines are real things. They make a very audible "whooosh" as they go past. * If the time frame for developing this is five years, then in five years, the code must either be shipped or scrapped. * Taking three years to get to a testable codebase allows two years to test. * Taking three months to get testable allows over four years to test. Would you say that doubling the testing period is a good thing or a bad thing? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
