On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2010/11/23 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> > >> You get the idea. >> >> That's just one very simple example in which IDE's make me more productive >> in ways that regular text editors can't. >> > > I did neglect that imports are quite nice with IDEs. That is the most > important one, to me. Of course, there is the rather abysmal reality when > the autoimport picks the wrong one. Typically after I select it, granted, > but it still takes more effort than I'd care to admit to correct it. > > My contention is still that having a good mental model of what you are > doing helps more than having a fancy editor that will auto complete some > stuff for you. > I'd argue that the scenario I just gave is exactly that. All I want to do is "Add a constructor with a String parameter to the Person class" or "Declare field m_name". Making this happen should be a one click operation. With text editors, you're basically back at the assembly level where you need to type all this information character per character. It's just not a waste of time, it's a distraction from what you really want to be focusing on, writing good code. But, to back it all up a bit, I am constantly seeing people that are far > more productive with a "mere text editor" than most of the people I see > using the latest IDE. > Note that my claim is "If you think you are productive with a text editor, you will be more productive with an IDE". I never said it's impossible for person X to be more productive with a text editor than person Y with an IDE. This kind of comparison is pointless. I'm just saying that if both X and Y embrace an IDE, they will both become more productive. Completely offtopic, I'm highly highly highly amused that I must allow > images in order to see your instructions for how you use autocomplete. Why > in the hell didn't Apple just go with cmd/alt? > Yeah I just wanted to get fancy, sorry for the trouble. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
