How many of you are Extreme Programmers?

[Changjune Kim]

"Christopher Blunck" <blunck at gst.com> wrote in message
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> Was just reading a thread about how python implements protected and
> private methods.  I found JP's response quite interesting (this is
> something I've heard numerous friends of mine say of the language):
>
> [In Python] everything is permissible, but not
> everything is opportune.  And that is very much Python's philosophy:
> rather than focusing on trying to make some things impossible (and
> generally failing -- a simple cast in most implementations of C++ lets
> you blast away any "protected" that a silly library designer may have
> tried to impose on you;-), Python empowers and trusts the programmer.
>
>
> The natural response a non-Python programmer has to this statement is,
> "what?!  you __trust__ the programmer?!  that doesn't work in most
> environments."  Despite the ignorance this response demonstrates, I
> none-the-less thought about the statement and the answer I came up
> with was "we write lots of really thorough tests to demonstrate
> functionality."
>
> That got me to thinking:  continuous testing is a cornerstone of the
> XP methodology.  <generalization>And Python programmers typically
> write lots of tests</generalization> (at least more than their Java
> counterparts from what I've seen).  That being said, can that
> generalization be extended to "Python programmers subscribe to the XP
> methodology"?
>
> So how many of you guys use XP processes?

I use. I was in a company where we developed a proteomics research software
with python and extreme programming. My best and happiest time of
development.

Looking at python through the java window is more painful and less useful
than through the smalltalk window. There is a lot to learn from smalltalk
culture; XP was born from the smalltalk land.

June.