Re: PG: Hackers and Painters and squishy phrases

[Pascal Costanza <address@hidden>]

Zooko wrote:

> Unfortunately (?), there is not yet any translation of XP from enthusiastic 
> and colorful advocacy into dry and standardized industrial prose.  Therefore, 
> the way to make a good value judgment about XP is is to first suspend judgment 
> while you give it a hearing on its own terms.
> 
> I strongly recommend this book, _Extreme_Programming_Explained_.  It is cheap, 
> short, and fun, and it presents a comprehensive picture of the practice.  XP 
> is more than the sum of its parts, and the book focusses on this fact.  
> Mailing list discussions, web pages, and magazine articles will mislead you 
> about what XP offers by presenting only part of the picture.

I have found the book "Planning Extreme Programming" by Kent Beck and 
Martin Fowler to be a little more down to earth and illuminating. It 
seems to me that Martin Fowler has succeeded in toning down Kent Beck's 
somewhat provocative wordings. ;)


Pascal

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