How many of you are Extreme Programmers?

[sismex01 at hebmex.com]

> From: Steven Taschuk [mailto:staschuk at telusplanet.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:24 PM
> 
> Quoth sismex01 at hebmex.com:
>   [...]
> > Many of us have used XP techniques without actually knowing
> > that our methodology was labelled as "XP", it comes natural
> > in the scope of our tools and goals.
> > 
> > Tool:   Python.
> > Goal:   Write specs-conforming programs and modules.
> > Method: Create tests which verify the code.
> > 
> > I don't know; "OOP", "XP", "Structured Programming", etc.. are
> > all monickers, buzzwords, fads, which come and go; [...]
> 
> To be fair, there's a great deal more to XP than just writing
> tests (as two minutes on the web will show you).  And verifying
> conformance to specs is only a small part of the function of tests
> in XP, or in TDD generally.
>

Of course; "XP" is merely the "standarization" of said
practices.  What I was trying to say was that these practices
didn't appear with XP, as many authors would like to claim,
but only that "XP" is a distillation of said practices.

> 
> The hype may well be annoying -- it annoys me, certainly -- but
> that doesn't mean the methodologies are in fact substanceless,
> or not worth learning about.
>

The tragic part about the hype is that, many people (such
as myself) who like a certain tendency, or technology, or
process, etc (what have you), automatically are turned off
by excessive marketing, detecting a large possibility of it
being vapour, which many times, it is. :-/

-gus