Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-23 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 23, 4:56 am, Roedy Green see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid wrote: On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst alb...@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

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-23 Thread Roedy Green
On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst alb...@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

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-19 Thread Albert van der Horst
In article 03db1c69-828a-4961-914d-62fe10ed8...@w39g2000prb.googlegroups.com, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Pascal Constanza wrote: Yes. There are actually complete software development methodologies built around these ideas. Google for extreme programming and agile software

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-09 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: ... if you want software engineering books, i suggest try some books that are based on statistical survey, as opposed to some dignitary's “opinion” or current fashion trends that comes with a jargon. These type of books are a dime a dozen, every year, they come and go. The

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-08 Thread blue indigo
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:32:21 +0100, Pascal Costanza wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Pascal Constanza is a Common Lisp fanatic. It's Costanza, not Constanza. Thank you, Pascal +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-06 Thread Pascal Costanza
Xah Lee wrote: Pascal Constanza is a Common Lisp fanatic. It's Costanza, not Constanza. Thank you, Pascal -- ELS'09: http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ My website: http://p-cos.net Common Lisp Document Repository: http://cdr.eurolisp.org Closer to MOP ContextL:

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-05 Thread Xah Lee
looking at the eXtreme Programing fuckheads's traffic history: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.software.extreme-programming/about for those who are not aware, it was one of the snake oil wildly popular in around 2001. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ Jason wrote: I just started reading OnLisp