Pen’s description of pair-programming’s origins is incorrect: > Besides, pair programming is an industry fad. Someone created a great tool to teach kids how to

Pen’s description of pair-programming’s origins is incorrect: > Besides, pair programming is an industry fad. Someone created a great tool to teach kids how to code, then decided to sell it to companies (because they got deeper pockets than schools and governments paying for kids' programming classes). Instead of selling just the tool (that possibly costs millions in licensing every year), they nowadays come up with a methodology (Agile, anyone?). This is so far off-base, I wonder where Pen got it from. For the record, pair programming originated at the C3 project (the Chrysler payroll project that gave birth to Extreme Programming). To the best of my knowledge, it was suggested by Ward Cunningham, or perhaps Kent Beck, based on the way the two of them worked together at Tektronix. There was no tool being sold and no school children.