Phobo's migration

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 14:52:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 08:52:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Honest question: have you ever looked into Kaizen and lean 
>>> management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen? Because 
>>> stopping everything in Phobos and waiting for "breakthroughs" 
>>> is a dead on arrival plan. A continuous improvement process 
>>> is much more viable, realistic, and likely to produce good 
>>> results.
>>
>> This is not true. There are many development methodologies and 
>> most of them are not suitable for designing programming 
>> languages, including all "lean" methodologies.
>
> Kaizen just means continuous improvement. My Dad is an 
> industrial engineer and talked about it all the time growing 
> up. I really can't even fathom why anyone would be opposed to 
> it...
>
> Lean is a broader concept and may not necessarily be a good fit.

Apples and oranges. Well designed programming languages requires 
a specification that is coherent, so they tend to follow a 
waterfall pattern, not an iterative pattern (kaizen).