XpdWiki: ScriptingRouteToAgileness

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- Free tools make a lot of difference. When I worked at large-anonymous-company, our manager told us we had a month to ship something in Java, but we had no IDE. She said that she'd put in a request for a JBuilder licence. By the time JBuilder arrived (a week later), we were all using IbmEclipse. I didn't need to settle for expensive imitations ;-) --DafyddRees

+ Free tools make a lot of difference. When I worked at large-anonymous-company, our manager told us we had a month to ship something in Java, but we had no IDE. She said that she'd put in a request for a JBuilder licence. By the time JBuilder arrived (a week later), we were all using IbmEclipse. I didn't need to settle for expensive imitations ;-)

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+ --DafyddRees

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+ I find the Perl comments odd, since I've found Perl people very amenable to agile practices. Especially since there is an active testing culture in Perl. Possibly there its the difference between the "quick script hack" people and the "application development" people?

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+ XP and Perl fit together very well in my experience, since the XP practices stop one of the worst Perl problems (the tendency to write very clever line noise) dead in its tracks.

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+ -- AdrianHoward