A few years ago someone, somewhere on the Web, posted a blog in which he observed that developers, by general temperament, seem to fall into two groups.
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. They like clean high-level languages (e.g. Python) which are compact enough that you can keep the whole language in your head, and require only a good text editor to be used effectively. The author wasn't saying that one was better than the other: only that there seemed to be this recognizable difference in preferences. I periodically think of that blog, usually in circumstances that make me also think "Boy, that guy really got it right". But despite repeated and prolonged bouts of googling I haven't been able to find the article again. I must be using the wrong search terms or something. Does anybody have a link to this article? Thanks VERY MUCH in advance, -- Steve Ferg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list