On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

I recently came across these two articles that I think are relevant to the Pharo Smalltalk development process:

Thoughts on Software Quality

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/thoughts-on-software-qua...

About improving vs rebuilding, about complaining about part you are not involved in, ...

This is a really good analysis and I agree with it. I would add that we can also have high standard about quality :)

The Lisp Curse

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

About the fact that powerful languages have social problems, ...

Sven