Comment Re:Programming language is NOT a success factor!! (Score 1) 801
In the end we seem to be on the same sheet regarding what you call hackers and code monkeys. My whole point is that finding the hacker instead of the code monkey is way far more important than choosing Java or PHP.
So although you seem to disagree with me I think we actually share the same opinon
I am not in favor of doing classical 'waterfall' cycles. Writing requirements doesn't mean you can't develop iteratively or incrementally. I am all in favor of continuous refactoring.
But you can't work on a large-scale website without doing a proper database design, a security plan, a test plan, applying suitable patterns, and decoupling. But methodology and producing documentation is a supportive activity, not a goal in itself. It should be done on a very minimal level, but it should be done. And methodologies and language choices are, again, in my opinion not tightly coupled.
As for startups doing large-scale websites, in general I don't think that the programming language choice will make the business succeed or fail. I think that Ebay, once a startup, could have been written in ASP, PHP, C++, Java or Perl and still it would have been where it is today.
So although you seem to disagree with me I think we actually share the same opinon
I am not in favor of doing classical 'waterfall' cycles. Writing requirements doesn't mean you can't develop iteratively or incrementally. I am all in favor of continuous refactoring.
But you can't work on a large-scale website without doing a proper database design, a security plan, a test plan, applying suitable patterns, and decoupling. But methodology and producing documentation is a supportive activity, not a goal in itself. It should be done on a very minimal level, but it should be done. And methodologies and language choices are, again, in my opinion not tightly coupled.
As for startups doing large-scale websites, in general I don't think that the programming language choice will make the business succeed or fail. I think that Ebay, once a startup, could have been written in ASP, PHP, C++, Java or Perl and still it would have been where it is today.
