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On 05/12/2018 11:29 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
> Agile versus waterfall depends on the project's goals rather than the language, 
> I feel. In some projects -- space on-board SW is typical -- the customer knows 
> what is wanted, based on intense earlier analysis of the mission, its scientific 
> or technical aims, SW/HW trade-offs etc. In agile projects there is flexibility 
> in the scope, the HW, the functionality, everything.

Agile is coders' response to employers who heard that they should hire S/W engs 
who use a method: We'll call what we do (shut up and start coding) a method. 
We'll throw in pair programming so they hire twice as many of us. (When 
engineering S/W, code generation should be mechanical.)

> I am reminded of the Mythbusters TV shows where the goal is to construct just 
> about anything with duct tape :-)

And here I thought the goal was to blow things up.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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