On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Darkseid <lorddae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2. It's easy to hire an IDE-aware monkey to do programming in "proven >> technology" > > I do most of my work in Ruby (and have done for a few years now). Every day > I bemoan the lack of a powerful refactoring IDE like Java has in IntelliJ. A > good IDE is a massive productivity booster; you can only get so far with a > text editor*, no matter how many macros you have set up. Honestly.
My riff was on the "monkey" part, not on the IDE part. A programmer who uses IDEs for refactoring etc., is a more evolved primate, IMO ;) The bogus argument about "proven technologies" often stems from the belief that having a point-and-click-and-get-a-banana is a proof of maturity or "enterprise-readiness" . Platforms which are heavily IDE centric (eg: MS technologies) tend to encourage their developers to think inside the box (IDE) all the time. Even though most Java programmers do use Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ it is not unheard of them to use vim/emacs more often than you hear a .NET developer using them. IDEs have their advantages. But more often than not, they also hide complexity behind all the boiler-code and templates. If programmers had to write XML by hand instead of having them spit-out by the IDE, we would have seen saner uses of XML in Java land, for instance. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
