Scripting languages don't get no respect. But they should, argues Jon Udell in an InfoWorld article entitled Shipping the prototype:
Years ago, when the paint was barely dry on Visual Basic 3.0, a developer showed me a CD-ROM-burning application he'd written using that toolkit. The idea was to prototype the UI in Visual Basic, then rewrite in C++ for performance. But in the end, he admitted somewhat sheepishly, "we shipped the prototype." I saw nothing to be ashamed of. It was -- and is -- a brilliant strategy. My only regret is that it hasn't been adopted more widely.
Good article.
Posted by Karl
February 7, 2003 10:23 AM