Communicating with Code

[Paul Makepeace]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Steve Mynott <steve at gruntling.com> wrote:

> 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.


Indeed, Gmail's still in beta ;-)

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