XP (was Re: Defending the Python lanuage... )

[Terry Reedy]

"Graham Ashton" <graz at mindless.com> wrote in message
news:Wg4a8.5754$k91.299578 at wards...
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:09:49 +0000, Thomas R. Corbin wrote:
>
> > The XP folks say that just adopting part of XP just isn't as
efficacious
> > as doing the whole thing because each piece supports the other
pieces.
> >
> >         Of course, they also say, "season to taste".
>
> Ron Jeffries says it's an ideal, which is almost never achieved:
>
>   http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/Misconceptions.htm
>
> From which I quote:
>
>   XP says that "all production code is written by two people sitting
>   together at one machine". That's the rule. As far as I know, no
project
>   has ever done that, including many that I consider to deserve the
name
>   XP. So what's the rule about? It's an ideal.

The recent book Extreme Programming: Applied (or something like that)
has a page on The Lone Wolf explaining how a person working alone
might apply the other parts of XP even without pair programming.

Terry J. Reedy