[wp-hackers] Distributed Pairprogramming for Wordpress development?

[Doug Stewart]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Eike Starkmann <
eike.starkmann at fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>
> Perhaps you made some bad experiences, with pair programming and it is
> good that you share it, but there are a lot of people who have made
> different experiences and find it very useful.
>
>
Which is all well and good, if the point of the exercise is training up
newcomers.  However, if the intent is to produce clean, bug-free code in a
fast and efficient manner, what Otto pointed out is true in many/most
situations: you're going to handcuff a gifted programmer and produce worse
code, slower.

It's fine and dandy to do pair programming if you want to initiate knowledge
transfer (what we used to call "teaching"), but as I said, it's not exactly
the best when it comes to clean code, quickly developed.

-- 
-Doug
http://literalbarrage.org/blog/