waterfall (was Re: REPOST: Re: Book "python programming patterns". anybody read this??)

[Neil Hodgson]

Terry Reedy:

> It strikes me (and the Governor) as scandelous that so-called
> professionals would spend so much time endlessly designing and never
> produce anything that worked and was useful.

   Some problems are *really* hard. Diseconomies of scale doom some projects
to failure. I bet the cause here was accomodation of legacy infrastructure.

   Neil