[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Jonathan C Patschke wrote:
> "Extreme Programming" at Rice was just another term for "Team 
> Programming" on a single terminal; the idea being that someone 
> hovering over your shoulder can catch when you type pritnf instead of 
> printf, or something stupid like that.  They thought it was some sort 
> of holy grail, and you couldn't opt out of it in several required 
> courses.  In fact, if you wrote code, at any time, without your 
> partner sitting beside you (say he went to go take a leak or somesuch, 
> and you typed `\n");'), your assignment was an automatic F.  Let me 
> just say that this policy fucked me over royally[1], and I would have 
> my degree right now had it not been present.  Yes, I'm bitter.

   Oh nonono...that was misuse of the term.  And completely ridiculous, 
I might add.  Extreme Programming is fairly well documented...I saw at 
least four books on it the last time I was at Border's.

      -Dave

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