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David West



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David West, °1948

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“Software development is neither a scientific nor an engineering task. It is an act of reality construction that is political and artistic.”
― David West, Object Thinking
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“The justification for the XP approach is based on two simple empirical observations: “We have seen master developers do these things” and “We have seen less proficient developers do these things and become better.”
― David West, Object Thinking
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“avoid old ways of thinking by avoiding the metaphors that are associated with those kinds of thinking. “Instead of ’next the machine needs to do this,’ we use, ’Just ask object X to do that.”
― David West, Object Thinking
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