Re: OOP/OOD Philosophy

"Robert C. Martin" <unclebob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Who are these self-proclaimed
> XP evangelists who are a notch below...?
>
> Frankly I don't see any. There are some folks out there who's
> enthusiasm sometimes gets the better of them, but that's a whole
> different matter. On the other hand, there *are* people out there
> making utterly ridiculous negative assertions about XP and Agile.
> Some have even written books about how bad XP is. It's clear that
> these people have never done XP, don't know much about XP, and don't
> care to know anything other than that they don't like it. They simply
> bash for the joy of bashing. THESE are the folks who remind ME of TV
> pitchmen.
>
I think the criticism is of writing which is largely polemical, and I think
it would be fair to put much of the writing by XP proponents in this
category. A good test would be to check whether the author treats XP as if
it were the one and only methodology that has no problems, and a good number
of articles on the subject appear to fall into this category. It's hard to
find blogs that dissect both successful and unsuccessful XP projects and
systematically discuss the consequences of the various practices, which is
what you'd expect if the author wanted to be taken seriously. Instead, you
get pictures of happy programmers on the cover of Software Development
magazine, links to projects that seem to go dead after a while, and links to
puff pieces. None of this is anti-XP; it's just that evangelical writing
tends to come across as a little bit silly when presented to a professional
audience.

Regards,
Daniel Parker


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