From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 10:10:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87fu2w3iml.fsf@nightsong.com> References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <87k1sg2qux.fsf@nightsong.com> <87h8njmk4r.fsf@nightsong.com> <87po27fbv9.fsf@nightsong.com> <87in7x62vw.fsf@nightsong.com> <878t8szdtk.fsf@nightsong.com> <87tvrdhl5v.fsf@nightsong.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9dec120c4fa556eefd384bbc0bb3fc36"; logging-data="6100"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18T6fWphu0MI1xnZD6XTTxz" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uj1D52WvY3CXSh/FmHZxVFYj5Z8= sha1:eHRlHFa58ZiLkX6LOMjbZNfHvbE= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52321 Date: 2018-05-12T10:10:10-07:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > "... the Agile catechism: we're Agile, we don't need to stop and > think, we just go ahead and code!" I think in the high-assurance community they use the term "rapid prototyping" for this style of development, and they see it as a good thing, as long as you don't claim that the thing produced that way is the final product. This is about a US Navy project where they compared a bunch of different rapid prototyping approaches. http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HaskellVsAda-NSWC.pdf