2 Sep
2016
2 Sep
'16
8:13 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 03:10, Steve Simon wrote:
I find this a very interesting conversation.
my bugbear is languages and tools that help you do the the easy stuff,
IDEs that suggest arguments for the read() function, syntax
highlighting that show which text comments etc.
this is not stuff I find hard, it helps me with the easy stuff!
Sure, but help with the easy [and medium - not every function's
signature is as simple as read()] stuff helps you not break your
concentration to go look at documentation if you're not 100% sure you
remember the signature correctly, so you can use your brain more
efficiently for the hard stuff.
I use a Java IDE that will, with a single command, generate a
declaration corresponding to the type of an expression I just assigned
to an undeclared variable. This saves typing [in the easy cases] and it
saves thinking about return types [in the medium cases].