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Graham Ashton graz at mindless.com
Tue Feb 12 03:22:16 EST 2002 
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:09:49 +0000, Thomas R. Corbin wrote:

> The XP folks say that just adopting part of XP just isn't as efficacious
> as doing the whole thing because each piece supports the other pieces.
> 
>         Of course, they also say, "season to taste".

Ron Jeffries says it's an ideal, which is almost never achieved:

  http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/Misconceptions.htm

>From which I quote:

  XP says that "all production code is written by two people sitting
  together at one machine". That's the rule. As far as I know, no project
  has ever done that, including many that I consider to deserve the name
  XP. So what's the rule about? It's an ideal.

Ron seems to be a bit of a wheel in the XP world too.

-- 
Graham
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