http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/22/wiki-wars/ Thu, 24 Mar 2011 04:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/22/wiki-wars/comment-page-1/#comment-6945 Tom Minderson Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:29:59 +0000 http://blog.technoetic.com/2005/03/22/wiki-wars/#comment-6945 Re: "On the other hand, many of the topics are a jumbled potpourri of ideas seldom resulting in any conclusion." - Some topics will never have a conclusion because they probably depend on personal design preferences. A more realistic goal would be to understand and summarize the tradeoffs of the alternatives. At this stage in software engineering history, we are like the earliest Greek philosophers: bouncing around ideas and viewpoints that will need time to test. Re: “On the other hand, many of the topics are a jumbled potpourri of ideas seldom resulting in any conclusion.” – Some topics will never have a conclusion because they probably depend on personal design preferences. A more realistic goal would be to understand and summarize the tradeoffs of the alternatives. At this stage in software engineering history, we are like the earliest Greek philosophers: bouncing around ideas and viewpoints that will need time to test.

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