On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message <07e5af6c-d41d-4a4a-8e2e- > f27bc92c9...@f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, Steve Ferg wrote: > >> On the one hand, there are developers who love big IDEs with lots of >> features (code generation, error checking, etc.), and rely on them to >> provide the high level of support needed to be reasonably productive >> in heavy-weight languages (e.g. Java). >> >> On the other hand there are developers who much prefer to keep things >> light-weight and simple. > > Would it be fair to say the first type tends to congregate in herds, > particularly in corporate IT departments, while the latter tends to operate > on a more individual basis?
That would certainly explain Lisp hackers! *(ducks)* Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
