Re: Sex Tips for Promiscious Pairs (was Practice: Pair Programming)

--- In xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Zhon 
Johansen <zhon@x> 
> I regret these two paragraphs in XPE 2nd Edition.

I have tried to form an opinion about all this.

There is something I find reassuring about confronting problems, and
I'm a born worrier so I need all the reassurance I can get.  When I
was younger I had a special talent for forgetting homework.  On the
journey to school my Mother would try to calm me, usually to no avail
with the knowledge that teachers are not monsters.  Of course, I knew
otherwise.  In the end she would ask, 'What is the worst thing they
could do to you?'.  Having considered the point, the "worst thing"
became suddenly endurable.

And so it might be that potential newcomers to XP will feel more
comfortable with pair programming having learnt of this potentially
awkward circumstance.  That said, mentioning the whole pair-orgy
affair does leave me with misgivings that I can't quite place.

I have encountered problems with pair-programming --nothing
insurmountable mind you.  Pair competence mismatch and difficulties
speaking or understanding foreign languages come to mind.  These
problems don't really compete with the one Kent has tackled for
unqualified oomph and fruitiness; on the other hand I suspect they are
more commonplace.

/Chris Steinbach





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