Re: Productivity and economics at software development

adriano.quest@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm making a little research project about programming languages e
> their respective IDEs....

Paul Rubin wrote:
Peter Hansen <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
scott.daniels@xxxxxxx
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