programming by evolution?

[Xah Lee]

On Feb 23, 4:56 am, Roedy Green <see_webs... at mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst
> <alb... 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.

2009-02-09

Today, i happened to run across a blog on the eXtreme Programing
FUCK.
http://www.yosefk.com/blog/extreme-programming-explained.html

Great article!

  Xah
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