[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm making a little research project about programming languages e > their respective IDEs....
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.... Peter's point (with which I agree) is that you are pulling a subset, not that all IDE-users are necessarily worse than non-IDE users. My point was that it is a mistake to think of "programming languages and their respective IDEs" as if the IDE is inextricably tied to a particular language and the language is inextricably linked with a particular IDE. -- -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list