Re: scrum

Further from Ward Cunningham (ward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I can understand how any methodology's language neutrality claim might
rub an APL programmer the wrong way.  I am an APL programmer and APL
has had a profound influence on how I think of programming. No wonder
modern APL programmers might think that agile is struggling to capture
properties that have been known in APL circles since the beginning.
They would be right.

I am a fan of J and especially the J Phrase Book which is a beautiful
collections of idioms. I have pointed this work out to design pattern
zealots when they needed a whack on the side of the head. This is a
whack most OOPSLA regulars could benefit from today.

So, does Scrum have anything to offer APL programmers? More often not,
I would think.

The J team won the Judge's Prize in the  ICFP'98 Functional
Programming Contest. They wrote an awesome retrospective on how they
approached the problem and solved it over a weekend. (A link here
would be appropriate but I could only find broken links from which I
got the year.) Were I designing a methodology for APL programmers I'd
want an agile method that was centered on the exact sort of
cooperation exhibited by this team.