Once you start managing a project by Extreme Practices, since the scope is not closed, only the resources, most of discussions about "project failure" change tint.

Cherry picking is not helpful to support any claim.�� Itself being considered a kind of fallacy, it taints your discourse.

Em 19/08/2009 23:51, Ken.Dickey < Ken.Dickey@whidbey.com > escreveu:

> So, a lot of people here can attest that indeed it is more productive to
> work in Smalltalk than in other languages, and that is the reason why
> this *myth* persist. Maybe subjective, maybe not. We know that when we
> work in Smalltalk and think how much more time/work/effort/boredom will
> take to do the same on other languages.

There are two factors to consider here
[1] Languages which do things well that others cannot
[2] Best Management Practices

As for [2], I shared my experience with Extreme Programming
in http://xpdx.org/files/ExtremeSuccess

XP is not for every project, just every one I would want to work on.

I also noted that if you can't afford to fail, you need to use a Dynamic
Language such as Lisp, Scheme, or Smalltalk. See [1].

If you can affor d to fail, you can write it in any language.

I prefer to "cherry pick" things that work.

$0.02,
-KenD

PS: I will ba away from computers for a week.

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