An interesting article on text-book vrs real-world programming - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Dec 2012

In article <03ba01cde440$cf014820$6d03d860$@sudbrink at verizon.net>,
    "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> writes:

...
  Dave wrote:
  It seems things have gone horrible, 50 years ago
the code
 where I worked was generally good. When I worked on a
 professional development team we had coding standards that
 were adhered to, did code walk throughs, and had proper
 documentation. These days it seems we don't have time for
 the checks and balances that make code maintainable and
 reliable.  
 Where things really count (embedded, real-time systems)
 those practices are still maintained.  Although I will
 say that recent CS grads with their "extreme programming"
 and all of that happy horse sh*t are harder to bring on
 board these days. 
If you think "extreme programming" is horse shit, then you don't
understand what "extreme programming" is all about.

Go read Kent Beck's book.

Go read The Agile Manifesto.
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