On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, 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. > I think what Pradeep was stressing was the kind of coders who expect half the software to be created by the magic of IDEs. I know several VB developers who cannot write five lines of code all by themselves without the familiar IDE interface. They exist, they are all around you. I have a customer who is still implementing a project that was originally assigned to a very Big IT shop (one among the top 3 in the country) which was supposed to be completed in 2004. I see a battery of developers writing code every day sitting at the customers place. I had show the original SRS document to a senior project leader No one here is debating the benefits of IDE. Even I wish there was a better IDE for Python sometimes. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers