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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:32:21 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 05/15/2018 12:21 AM, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>> I think you're confusing "agile programming" with the related but silly
>> "extreme programming" and "test-driven development".
>>
>> Agile programming itself is simply a style where one uses a relatively 
>> short
>> development cycle with the intent to have a usable/testable version of 
>> the
>> end product as early and as continuously as possible. This allows 
>> feedback
>> from the customer and from testing the product itself.
>
> Did you see the Meyer quotes from another post? Clearly "shut up and start 
> coding" was a common feature of the Agile projects he reported on.

Surely, bad management is possible with any programming style! And following 
some programming technique slavishly without understanding why is clearly 
the mark of bad management.

                       Randy.