NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

inforequest writes:
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:53 PM
> To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Parsing <php: possible?
> 
> 
> Tim Gales tgales-at-tgaconnect.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:
> 
> > Jon Baer writes:
> >  
> >
> >>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:23
> >>
> >>Maybe I don't 'get it', but this methodology seems to me not to be
> >>'Extreme Programming' but rather extremely bad programming -- 
> >>just coding without thinking first and without regard to a 
> >>thought out library.
> >>
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> >>
> 
> I like that extreme programming pairs programmers.. I have never seen 
> anything so purifying as asking two programmers to work together on 
> every line of code, on the fly.
> 
> As for avoiding generalizing until it is required... that may 
> simply be 
> a response to 15 years or so of building bloated C++ 
> libraries that only 
> C++ library programmers could really use... not unusual to see a
> rubberbanding after all that wasted "efficiency".  Also, with 
> at least 
> two knowledgeable programmers in tune with every line of 
> code, perhaps 
> there is less of a risk of forgetting how it works (?) -- so 
> it can be 
> packed into a lib later.
> 
>

Ah yes, the old we'll refactor it later ('packed into a lib later') -- 
very similar to we'll document that later.

The guy said (from the article I originally quoted),
| " ...As long as JSP coding allows inline coding, it is very convenient 
| (especially when deadlines are looming) to make last-minute changes 
| with inline code, rather than converting the code to a tag library..."


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