Extreme Terseness: Some Languages Are More Agile than Others
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Description: While XP principles are independent of the languages in which software is developed, we can distinguish properties of programming languages that affect the agility of development. The history of software development in these languages foreshadows some of the characteristics of XP projects. To these linguistic communities, XP offers the prospect of rehabilitating styles of software development that fell into disrepute with the rise of software engineering. Conversely, these languages offer XP practitioners the possibility of radical condensation of the conversation between developer and customer. Author(s) : Stephan Taylor