[BangPypers] But IDEs rock! (was Google Go)

Anand Balachandran Pillai abpillai at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 16:08:46 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Darkseid <lorddaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> 2. It's easy to hire an IDE-aware monkey to do programming in "proven
>> technology"
>>
> I do most of my work in Ruby (and have done for a few years now). Every day
> I bemoan the lack of a powerful refactoring IDE like Java has in IntelliJ. A
> good IDE is a massive productivity booster; you can only get so far with a
> text editor*, no matter how many macros you have set up. Honestly.
>

 On E M A C S  since 1998 and not doing very bad either...


> Best,
> Sidu.
> http://blog.sidu.in
> http://twitter.com/ponnappa
>
> * This is especially true of USD1800 text editors like Visual Studio.
>
> Pradeep Gowda wrote:
>
>> That's what the big boys of the world wants you to believe. I had met a
>>> very
>>> senior official in the government a techy himself and spent 3 hours
>>> showing
>>> him virtues of Python and Django, hoping that they will change the RFP
>>> terms.
>>>
>>> I found out yesterday that the application has to be developed  on a
>>> proven
>>> technology like Java,C++ or C#. When I spoke to the gentleman he said his
>>> consultant said that dynamically typed languages are not safe for mission
>>> critical work. The work is far from being mission-critical is another
>>> point
>>> altogether.....
>>>
>>>
>>
>> That's because "big boys" define the market suitable to themselves.
>>
>> 1. it's easier to code more, take more time when using "proven technology"
>> 2. It's easy to hire an IDE-aware monkey to do programming in "proven
>> technology".
>>
>> Anyway, one answer to "proven technology" bugaboo is Jython and
>> IronPython. It's still Java(platform) and .NET
>> with bi-directional compatibility.
>> +PG
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