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XP was originated by Kent Beck, based on his years of practice as an object-oriented software developer, and in particular, his work with Ward Cunningham using the Smalltalk programming language. Because Smalltalk was the first popular object-oriented language, Ward and Kent have been doing object-oriented programming longer than just about anyone else.
