Re: A coders work is only half of the game

Read Paul Graham and look at what he says about how they did this kind of thing at ViaWeb.

In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-)
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"

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Re^2: A coders work is only half of the game by kscaldef (Pilgrim) on May 13, 2005 at 17:41 UTC
so, Paul Graham's a reasonably prolific writer. What specific essay(s) did you have in mind? Or are you referring to his book?	[reply]
Re^2: A coders work is only half of the game by BUU (Prior) on May 13, 2005 at 23:38 UTC
Doesn't he say: "You should rewrite every thing in lisp and only hire genuises like me?"	[reply]
Re^3: A coders work is only half of the game by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 14, 2005 at 00:49 UTC
In addition to that, he also describes how a good software developer deals with their users and betatesters. That's the relevant bit. In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it usually is. :-) "What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?"	[reply]
Re^4: A coders work is only half of the game by kscaldef (Pilgrim) on May 14, 2005 at 06:27 UTC
But, again, there's something like 40 essays on his web site, and none of them have a title that refers to users or beta testers. So, I'm still unclear on what precisely you think we should read that's relevant to this topic.	[reply]