it's only when u code Re:Pair programming (Score 1)

you share a workstation when you pair prog. you don't share when u r reading mail, playing unreal etc, dpoing spike work to get a proposed idea fleshed out. and if you are in the right sort of projects and work spaces, PP is fun and productive. IMOit is very hard to do pairing for more than 2 hours at a time cos it is actually harder on yr brain - you can't goof off mentally for ten minutes when things get tough.