Comments on: The Parable of the Two Programmers http://refactr.com/blog/2007/08/the-parable-of-the-two-programmers/ informs on and evangelizes best practices of using <a href="http://refactr.com/the-agile-manifesto/">agile methods</a> when designing and developing what are currently being called “Web 2.0” products and applications. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:33:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Brent http://refactr.com/blog/2007/08/the-parable-of-the-two-programmers/#comment-5037 Brent Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:20:56 +0000 http://refactr.com/blog/2007/08/27/the-parable-of-the-two-programmers/#comment-5037 I hadn't heard that story in my CS degree. Then again my prof would have expected 2500 lines of code in a week, not 3 months. Most of the stories we got were like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem" rel="nofollow">Dining Philosopher's</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_barber_problem" rel="nofollow">Sleeping Barber's</a> problems. I hadn’t heard that story in my CS degree. Then again my prof would have expected 2500 lines of code in a week, not 3 months.

Most of the stories we got were like the Dining Philosopher’s or Sleeping Barber’s problems.

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