How many of you are Extreme Programmers?

[Robin Becker]

In article <3E9EA707.4DB53582 at engcorp.com>, Peter Hansen
<peter at engcorp.com> writes
>> This sounds remarkably similar to what we commonly call genetic
>> optimisation or evolution strategy selection. There a fitness criterion
>> is applied to randomly selected elements of a pool of solutions, with
>
>The key is that XP is _not_ applying "randomly selected elements".
>The experience and abilities of the programmer are heavily involved
>in the process.
interestingly genetic programming et al seem to perform worse when
attempts are made to 'direct' the evolution. 
-- 
Robin Becker