Seeking old post on developers who like IDEs vs developers who like simple languages

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mff7e6-e43.ln1 at satorlaser.homedns.org>, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:

> If you took a look at Java, you
> would notice that the core language syntax is much simpler than Python's.

I don't think it is. Look at things like "private" versus "protected" versus 
"public" with or without "static" and "final", "class" versus "interface", 
what "new" means, and all the predefined types being reserved words, 
including of course the concept of "void", special syntax for defining array 
types, and typecasting -- these are all things that Python manages to do 
without.

And that's not even counting newer language features added since the last 
time I did any Java programming.