Communicating with Code

[Steve Mynott]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:32:41AM +0000, Paul Makepeace typed:

> One of the original Gmail authors on benefits of using prototypes and the
> ease of developing those prototypes (rather than slick presentations),
> http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-code.html
> 
> One of the wins IMO with Perl is how quickly you can bang something out that
> does useful work (esp. on the command line!), whether for a demonstration or
> actually solving the problem right there.

The trouble is that prototype then goes live and you have to maintain
it.