Hallöchen! Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> You didn't answer the question about how you define agile >>> project. Please do so if you expect a comment on this. >> >> Projects with a high Sourceforge activity index. > > That doesn't seem to match the common defintion of "agile" when it > comes to programming. Then again, you have a habit of using words > to mean whatever you want, without much reference to how they're > used by the rest of the industry. I'm not part of the industry. Sorry, but now the arguments are getting destructive. Agile programming is a fixed phase, which I've never used. (And which makes no sense in this discussion.) > [...] > > Sorry, but you're wrong. FORTRAN is very much a general purpose > language. [...] It's not about the potential use of a language, but its actual use. > [...] > >>> You can't have it both ways. Either C/C++ is all legacy code, or >>> it's not. >> >> ... is wrong in my opinion. Why should this be? > > Because any given proposition is either true or false. If I say "most people are right-handed", then this means neither that all people are right-handed nor that none is. > [...] > >>> There are *lots* of applications areas that don't need GUIs, and >>> don't run on Windows. >> >> This becomes a discussion about estimates we both don't know >> exactly, and weight differently, so I'll leave it here. > > No, it's not a discussion about estimates. The average household > in a G8 country has more computers that don't run Windows - and in > fact don't have GUIs at all - than otherwise. [...] However, it's about the types of software which is being produced today. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
