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Favorite Logic Analyzer for Hobby Use
John Larkin wrote:
http://www.extremeprogramming.org It's interesting that the curent state of programming is so bad that some people think having two people share a keyboard, and discuss every line of code, is a viable approach to improvement. I agree with that, more or less. Peer reviewing of your code on a regular basis can be interesting, but two people working on the same code all the time? Heck! I have seen a couple ideas in extreme programming that I thought were interesting, but the rest is, in my opinion, all hype. |
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Favorite Logic Analyzer for Hobby Use
Guillaume wrote:
John Larkin wrote: http://www.extremeprogramming.org It's interesting that the curent state of programming is so bad that some people think having two people share a keyboard, and discuss every line of code, is a viable approach to improvement. I agree with that, more or less. Peer reviewing of your code on a regular basis can be interesting, but two people working on the same code all the time? Heck! I have seen a couple ideas in extreme programming that I thought were interesting, but the rest is, in my opinion, all hype. TRUE STORY! A number of years ago, I worked for a company doing toll road electronics. One system they were working on was a vehicle classification system. It used a number of different sensors to measure a vehicle as it passed, at road speeds, through a toll point. It was pure electronic, so speeds exceeding 90 mph were expected. For this bit of software magic, they had hired an outside company as contractors. They were in our test lab, working on the code. While they were not working at the same keyboard, they were constantly shouting at each other... BUILDING! I HAVE DAEMONS! and other arcane nonsense. It was apparent they were working on the system, in real time, and modifying it as they went along, in true hacker paradigm. It was pretty distracting, as I was quietly building my own little system (all hardware!) in the corner. Finally, after about 3 months of this, they finally had code that worked. The term spaghetti would be applicable and descriptive! My two co-workers, who had been 'supervising' the development, went to management and asked for two month to go back in, and from scratch, re-write the software now that they knew an effective algorithm. Of course, they were refused, and a few weeks later, released... 8-) Charlie |
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