I expect to see a lot of 1337 programmers doing rad tricks like mangling the symbol table and installing source filters. I also expect a very loud heavy metal soundtrack, with lots of highlight reels of programmers bailing from twisted stack dumps, compiler errors, seg faults, and other stunts. Of course, I am still waiting for the EXTREME BRAIN**** DVD.

Ok, maybe not -- I'm just not an XP fan. It may be right for some people and in some orgs, but often it is just another "Best Practice", and I always follow the legendary advice, "Beware the Greeks Bearing Gifts", I mean, err "Beware the Academics (UPDATE: I left out Overpaid Consultants!) Bringing Best Practices". Having attended numerous XP lectures, many of which from folks buddy-buddy with Kent Beck, and often seeing XP fail, I have grown much distaste for such a trend. It is full of sound and fury... and buzzword compliance!

Perl may be decently suited for XP (seeing it is very flexible and rapid development-like from the start), but the nature of having more breakable interfaces (less datatypes and soft OO), may make this even more of a liability than normal XP, which I equate to walking in a minefield most of the time. With Perl, it would be, IMHO, like playing tackle football in a minefield.

In reply to Re: Draft of "Extreme Perl" available by flyingmoose
in thread Draft of "Extreme Perl" available by adrianh

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