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Above in this comment thread: Is Chandler's Demise Evidence that Dynamic Languages Can't Scale?

Wha?

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-01-21 07:52 PM

The Chandler project is perhaps the best-documented software failure of the past 10 years. There's an excellent, famous book (which you linked to, but apparently haven't read!) documenting all of the many, many causes of its failure.

And yet you still manage to write an entire post about the question of whether the *programming language* had something to do with it. You, sir, are incredible. I salute you!

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Posted by ceperez at 2008-01-22 06:05 AM

When the rubber meets the road, it ultimately is about code.

Certainly, Chandler had its own internal social and political issues, but what project does not?

It's the nature of software to have fluid requirements and efforts that lead to dead ends. The question is then, can the development environment that was is in compensate for this?

Apparently, the magic wand of Python was not enough.

http://www.wordyard.com/2007/11/13/perfect-software/