Subj : Re: extreme programming (thoughts)
To   : comp.programming
From : alfps
Date : Thu Jul 21 2005 07:53 pm

* matt@mailinator.com:
> 
> now, put it all together:
> 
> - days of busywork writing undocumented code, at a cost of two
> programmers
> - 10+ people in a room together
> - no personal desk, space, cube pictures/decorations, etc..
> 
> ...and what do you get? a collosial waste of resources, and a
> de-humanizing workplace. but damn it looks good on paper.
> 
> so did the commies.

I think it's much the same thing.  The original communism idea was that when
capitalism has done its magic, which it should be allowed to, we'll have the
technology to be individually free, no longer need for an enforced economic
system, short of some major catastrophe intervening before we get that far.
And who could disagree with that?  Only, some theoricians focused
exclusively on bits & pieces of what society would be like after the
aforementioned capitalistic success, without mentioning much the fact that
getting there would take a lot of time and non-communism, and some power
people turned that around and convinced a lot of dummies that that's how we
should build society _now_, and a lot of other power people that that's a
good way to establish a power structure we'll be happy with (let's just
execute some tens of millions peasants on the way, that's them, not us).


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