How many of you are Extreme Programmers?

[Mahesh Padmanabhan]

Christopher Blunck wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:36:14AM -0500, sismex01 at hebmex.com wrote:
> 
>>Many of us have used XP techniques without actually knowing
>>that our methodology was labelled as "XP", it comes natural
>>in the scope of our tools and goals.
> 
> 
> Absolutely!  Which is why I believe that many of us in the Python
> community follow many of the principals of "XP" without knowing it.
> 
> 
> 
>>I don't know; "OOP", "XP", "Structured Programming", etc.. are
>>all monickers, buzzwords, fads, which come and go; they come
>>into existance when some mass-market-oriented technical book
>>writer says "Hey, this programmer is successful, let's see
>>what he's doing"; once done, the writer creates some catchy
>>name for this guy's techniques, and sells his book.
>>
>>I really dislike market speak, as you can tell. :-)
> 
> 
> Me too.  What's discouraging is that it often takes books, buzzwords,
> and fads to get the attention of higher-ups.  Developing software
> is not all that difficult - it's always so confusing why people make
> software development more complex than it actually is.
> 
> 
> -c
> 

Yeah, XP is a buzzword too. I programmed a lot of C++ code ( I wish it 
were python) and when I came to know about XP, I realized that all the 
software engineering that I put into the C++ code could be classified as 
XP (including the most controversial of all - pair programming !)