On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  One classic example that still makes me laugh/cry, is at Tech-Ed 2004, a
> teacher asks Anders Hejlsberg (chief architect of C#) how to make Visual
> Studio loose code completion, so that he would be more able to test the
> skills of his students. Whereto Anders politely answers that he'd much
> rather students employ all the tools available and that teachers just make
> the problems harder. I believe it's somewhere within this old recording:
> http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTc0OTAyOTU2.html
>

Very good example and great response from Hejlsberg.

I'm always surprised by the number of people who just don't understand this
point, starting with all the people saying things like "If your language
needs an IDE to be used correctly, it has already failed". The point of
IDE's (and tools in general) is not to be used as a substitute for thinking
but to make sure that humans can focus on things that computers can't do
while letting the computer take care of tasks that they can do without the
intervention of humans.

-- 
Cédric

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