ActiveState going the wrong way

[Daniel Berlin]

Maniac <Maniac at alltel.net> writes:


> I strongly disagree lack of autocompletion will in the short run (in your 
> words lower productivity)  but will also increase the skill of the 
> programmer by forcing you to look up functions and other such stuff that
> you accidently store in your brain and you are EGAD "forced" to learn 
> something that the next time you're coding you happen to remember the
> function.  The process of "learning" can't be forgotten 
                   

Whoops, sorry to blow your entire argument out of the water, but this
entire paragraph is pure bullshit. 
Please take a course in brain and cognitive sciences, dealing with
human memory.
For instance, current belief is that the rate of forgetting is a
function of how well the information is learned, not how often you see
it.  
So if you just *look up* the function, for half a second, to see which
one does what you want,  you aren't going to rememember it any better or worse.
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