programming by evolution?

[Roedy Green]

On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst
<albert at spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Note here, that eXtreme
>>Programing is one of the snake oil,

Extreme programming is a variant on Deming's idea of constant
incremental improvement that revolutionised quality in manufacturing.

It is also based on the obvious idea that you will be smarter after
you have used some version of a program than you are today. There are
so many computer programs perfectly compliant with specs that looked
good on paper but nobody ever tested with actual use to refine them
until the project was "complete" and it was too expensive to fix them.


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