[Edu-sig] Future of CP4E after CNRI?

[Steve Litt]

At 05:36 PM 07/13/2000 -0400, Art Siegel wrote:
>Further to my last - 
>
>My grand scheme of course is to found a new school of programming.
>There's Extreme Programming. I do Naive Programming.

The term "Extreme Programming" (as opposed to the practice it describes)
never fails to crack me up. After reading about "Extreme Programming", IMHO
it's a very productive and reasonable methodology, but it's not "extreme"
at all, and the trades' predelection to call it "extreme" is nothing short
of pretentious. 

To me, the programming of our youth, triple consecutive allnighters,
no-design coding, drunk programming, 800 lines per night, assembler TSR
programs that run 400K executables at a keystroke -- that was extreme. The
thing billed as "Extreme Programming" is in fact quite mild, but probably
much more intelligent and productive.

Not that this has *anything* to do with the topic at hand (sorry, I
couldn't resist).

Steve