Ten Essential Development Practices

[Steve Holden]

Dan Sommers wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:35:54 -0700,
> Robert Kern <rkern at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>That said, I made a boo-boo. The Zen of Python is really a set of
>>design principles (and some of them, like this one, are more
>>specifically *language* design principles), not Essential Development
>>Practices. That'll teach me to not RTFA.
> 
> 
> May I respectfully disagree?  The Zen applies to all aspects of software
> (and other things, too, but they're off topic here), from human readable
> reports and requirements and documentation, to GUI's, to test cases, to
> code, to database schemta, as well as the development methodology and
> practices themselves.
> 
> Sometimes you have to look at the Zen sideways, so that "implementation"
> appears to be replaced by the particular aspect or aspects (or the
> software, or just software, as a whole, for the true Masters out there)
> you happen to be working on at the time, but such is the nature of Zen.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 
If I canpoint out the obvious, the output from "import this" *is* headed 
"The Zen of Python", so clearly it isn;t intended to be universal in its 
applicability.

regards
  Steve
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