Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-23 Thread Roedy Green
On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst 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 quality in manufacturin

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-23 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 23, 4:56 am, Roedy Green wrote: > On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst > 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

Re: programming by evolution?

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

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. Th

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: http://common-lisp.net/

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