Re: Data oriented programming

In article <[email protected]>,
    Fabian Giesen <[email protected]> writes:

> Why do so many people on this list insist on turning this into a 
> dichotomy?  [...]

Ironically when I read your initial response to my suggestion of
having CI performance tests, this was my first thought.

Why does it have to be either/or, why can't it be both?

Why can't we think ahead but validate our thinking with CI testing?

> But I'm somewhat baffled that my suggestion of, in effect, "think before 
> you type" is actually being met with resistance.

I don't perceive anyone as actually having expressed resistance to the
idea of thinking ahead.

I don't know if you feel this way or not, but I commonly see people
expressing the idea that agile development is incompatible with
thinking ahead or that "true" agile development somehow prohibits
thinking ahead.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Maybe they
get this idea from the agile manifesto's statement that it values
"responding to change over following a plan".  It doesn't say "do not
plan"; the agile manifesto was created in response to an environment
where people were drowning in specifications (i.e. plans) and yet
still building the wrong thing based on customer feedback.

In a gaming studio, "responding to change over following a plan" would
mean to me things like adjusting game play based on test play groups,
even if your original plan/architecture/whatever had something
different and it means ditching parts or all of your original
plan/architecture/whatever.

Maybe a game like "The Daedalus Encounter" probably wouldn't have been
such a piece of shit if they had responded to change instead of following
their plan.
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