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authorDarren Bane <dbane@tilde.institute>2021-04-20 15:47:49 +0100
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 title: Breaking the Rules: Refining Prototypes Into Products  
 author: Darren Bane  
-copyright: 2020 Darren Bane, CC BY-SA  
+copyright: 2020-21 Darren Bane, CC BY-SA  
 
 # Abstract
 
 Recommendations for a process to refine prototypes into production-quality code
 are made.
 
-*TODO*: Q: re-cast much of this document as Architecture
-Decision Records? A: N
-
 # Introduction
 
 The conventional wisdom is that prototypes should be discarded once the lessons
@@ -19,8 +16,6 @@ In the spirit of [1]
 I argue that improvements in development tools have
 invalidated this.
 
-*TODO*: case study
-
 # Previous Work
 
 There is a long history of recommending prototyping as a way to construct
@@ -54,9 +49,7 @@ without earning money.
 
 ## Design Decisions
 
-The programming language chosen is a particular style of Common Lisp.
-For readability my
-[ISLisp-like subset of CL](bane.20.cdr15.md) should be followed where practical[5].
+The programming language chosen is ISLisp.
 Reasons for this decision include:
 
 * Contrary to a lot of other languages, Lisp is fairly paradigm-agnostic.
@@ -64,13 +57,10 @@ Reasons for this decision include:
 * The imperative and object-oriented paradigms are commonly taught,
   used in industry,
   and have a small "impedence mismatch" to current hardware.
-* The existence of quicklisp.
-  Popularity is not really a reason for choosing Common Lisp over ISLisp,
-  but slotting into quicklisp *is*.
 
 Detailed implementations, libraries, etc. are as follows:
 
-* The SBCL compiler.
+* The Easy-ISLisp interpreter/compiler.
 * Avoid multi-threading at this stage,
   event-driven should do the job.
 * Not sure if this is relevant for a prototype, but you could do simple multi-user
@@ -84,19 +74,18 @@ it could be difficult to satisfy expectations.
 ### Dependencies
 
 For the prototyping phase,
-you should *really* limit yourself to the ISLisp subset.
+you should *really* limit yourself to ISLisp.
 If absolutely necessary you can choose some of the libraries mentioned in the "Productisation" section below.
 
 ## Coding standards
 
 Even though this is a prototype, attention should be paid to basic craftsmanship.
 
-* Divide the system into packages, using the subset of CL that is
-  supported by OpenLisp.
+* Divide the system into "packages".
   This can start from just "section headers" with lots of semicolons.
-* Write docstrings for at least each public fun, class and package.
+* Write comments for at least each public fun, class and package.
   There are good guidelines in the Elisp manual, but for now one sentence will suffice.
-* Use `declare`
+* Use `assure` or `the`
   to check the types of parameters in public interfaces (see below).
 * Indent all the source code using Emacs.
 * Some minimal documentation, at least an overview like in [README driven development](https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html)