Don't you mean Agile Programming?
Hal Kaplan wrote:
>Most documentation is a waste of time and money. It is expensive to
>produce. It is frequently not maintained, rendering it useless. And it
>makes two very "iffy" assumptions: one that the author knows how to
>write and two that the reader has a basis for comprehension.
>
>Heresy? Perhaps.
>
>My response to documentation (or lack of it) is that if I am going to
>fix your code or expand it or whatever, I had better be smart enough to
>understand what is there. If I cannot do that from looking at the
>source code and perhaps a few test cases, then I should not be messing
>with the stuff. Would you want to be under the care of a medical doctor
>who had to rely on his class notes?
>
>Agile programming? It's an oxymoron. If one ordinary woman can give
>birth to a child in nine months, nine agile women should be able to do
>it in one month.
>
>HALinNY
>
>
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