Re: GUI doesn't appear when using ./run-octave

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/24/2012 08:16 AM, Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> On 09/24/2012 06:16 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > Unfortunately there are few resources for writing requirements before
> > hand.
> Two things:
>
> 1. I did not ask for requirements. I asked for a design document.
> 2. The resources are there. They are being devoted to coding and
> fixing bugs. This is a choice.
>
> There is experience that coding first and then trying to figure out
> what the design should have been is not often the the most effective
> choice. Or, at least, that is my experience.

Yes design document is more appropriate.  Your experience pretty much 
matches what I've heard elsewhere.  I could say more, but one thing I'll 
note is that even in industry often the design document is eschewed 
because it appears no progress is being made while employees sit around 
mulling over design details.  In the long run things come back to cause 
problems.  Haste makes waste, as it were, but often businesses don't 
think long term in today's climate.

Dan