Paul Rubin wrote: > Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>If you focus on IDEs, your research will have pre-selected only >>certain kinds of programmers and teams, and will not necessarily >>include the best ones. > > It wouldn't have occurred to me to say that Ken Iverson (APL), Peter > Deutsch (PARC Smalltalk), or Dave Moon (MIT Lisp machine) were any of > them slouches. Some of the best programming ever done has gone into > IDE's. It would be great if Python had anything of the caliber of > those old systems.
Then we're on the same page, Paul, since I would never say that any of those people, nor many others who use or create IDEs, were slouches. If you thought I said that, I believe you're parsing my statement incorrectly, or using incorrect logic. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
