From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C61087C.6E71A80F@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] XP (was: code complexity) References: <20020206001339.2FBC619981@mail.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:42:04 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4d3bbff8-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 geoff@collyer.net wrote: > I haven't read enough about XP to comment on most of it, but I dislike > the idea of pair programming. Depends of the circumstances. > There's nothing wrong with someone else > reading my code, but I need some quiet and calm to program, so having > someone nattering in my ear, second-guessing me is going to be a > disaster. And how is the other member of the pair selected? Well yeah, that is a problem. At least here we're a small group and are going in the same direction. Pair programming in a large group [real world] would be a disaster (unless you like being lectured or yelled at :). We don't do it that much, but sometimes we do, when we want to, with who we want to. Then again, I guess I am pair programming right now with a guy 30km away [we are discussing protocol implementation issues]. > Go it alone? I'd go for the 'go it alone' but call in for help when I/you need it.