Nov
20
The Roots of XP
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Although it is not very evident in much of the Java-centric literature
that surrounds XP, it owes most of its heritage to ideas from the
Smalltalk world. Even in the 1980s, Smalltalk had powerful, expressive
class libraries and a forgiving, flexible, powerful, and productive
development environment. The Smalltalk environment encourages developers to be fearless because it is so forgiving. [...]