glyph@divmod.com wrote:

On 10:24 pm, james@mansionfamily.plus.com wrote:

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Call me old-fashioned, but what you are describing is the difference between design-free-hacking followed by iteration, and actually designing something. You know, all that waterfall stuff. I know, its not fashionable right now.

This argument is kind of pointless. You can insult us by saying what we're doing isn't "real" design, or you can talk about what they do where you work, but the fact is that we do have some consensus around doing things a certain way here (iteratively).

Regardless of fashion, we do things a certain way when we work on Twisted; we'll continue to do something that way unless a major contributor has some serious suggestions about how things might be done better. You're not going to become a major contributor and get that kind of influence just by complaining; since, by the fact that you're around and talking about Twisted here, *something* we did with our iterative process worked out right :).

Yeah, but you were just lucky - it's not like you guys are clever or anything ... ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/