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Author Topic: The IDE Divide - nice article on ide users vs. non-ide users and what it means  (Read 4,578 times)

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The developer world is divided into two camps. Language mavens wax rhapsodic about the power of higher-level programming — first-class functions, staged programming, AOP, MOPs, and reflection. Tool mavens are skilled at the use of integrated build and debug tools, integrated documentation, code completion, refactoring, and code comprehension...

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