[PD-announce] Re: [PD] xp4pd - extreme programming over the network

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 17:28 Europe/Brussels, Mathieu Bouchard  
wrote:

>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> This allows Pd users to practice 'extreme programming' (aka 'XP') in
>> realtime over the internet.  XP is the practice of 2 or more
>> programmers working on the same code at the same time collaboratively.
>
> Collaborative programming may be nice, but I'm sorry to tell you that  
> it's
> not what Extreme Programming is at all.
>
> Here is a webpage that explains it better than I ever could, as it is
> written by Ron Jeffries himself.
>
> 	http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm

Ok, so maybe I don't have the business practices and team management  
included yet, but maybe I am going to  ;).  But based on the 'Core  
Practices', I would say that this qualifies as XP:

Core Practices: Simple Design, Pair Programming, Test-Driven  
Development, Design Improvement, Continuous Integration, Collective  
Code Ownership

especially when you consider the focus on 'Pair Programming'.

.hc

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