Stevey's Blog Rant against The Church of Agile

Just finished reading Steve Yegge's rant against Agile. It's a work of Art, and the man is a gifted comedy writer 😂 The best part is how you get like... Louis CK level humour but with tons of programmer in-jokes!

My favourite part:

The Perl folks have this Perl Haiku competition each year. 
It's a nifty idea, and it's pretty amazing that 
you can write useful seventeen-syllable programs.

I tried it with Java once, and produced a valid Java haiku:

ArrayList<int> myListOfInt = new ArrayList<int>();

which, spoken aloud, reads:

ArrayList of Int
my list of int, equals new
ArrayList of Int

My sides.

Give it a go if you got some free time 😄 https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/10/egomania-itself.html?m=1

#ItsOkayToSayNOToAgile

Comments

[Alain Van Hout]

With written word it's always hard to tell whether something is meant ironically or not, but it seriously sounds as if he honestly finds static typing useless. I wonder whether he also finds unit tests or user acceptance testing useless, or whether he just has a general fondness for regularly fixing bugs in production 🙄.