Pair programming: expert-expert: - ya - hu-hum... - ya - look... I'm way overloaded with work - same here - do you think we should both work on our stuff

Pair programming: expert-expert: - ya - hu-hum... - ya - look... I'm way overloaded with work - same here - do you think we should both work on our stuff independently - sure, It'll be more efficient this way, see you at lunch expert-novice: - but why are you assigning this? - well, it's the counter and it has to start at zero - well, shouldn't you use an accessor? - an accessor for a counter?... (sigh) - ya, we may want to change the counter to a float one day - (silence) [adds the stupid accessor to have him shut up] - and this should be a singleton - (silence) [adds the stupid singleton with the ominous feeling of sinking deeper into depression, loosing any sense of passion] - I was thinking, since we have an accessor for our counter, shouldn't we create a factory to automate instanciation too? - [leaves for a cigarette break and never comes back... to this day, the whereabouts of this pragmatic programmer is unknown] novice-novice: - Let's make an accessor! - Yeah! and let's make a singleton! - Yeah! and a factory? (honhonhon) [it's a french dude] - Sure! and maybe we should have a red-black tree of factories, imagine the power! - Woooaa! I can't fathom the power! I never heard of such a thing!... it's AWESOME! ... Maybe we should template all of this - you're reading my mind! - ...