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Re:Do modern IDEs make us dumber? by gaius on Saturday December 06, 2008 @03:20AM (#387980)
It's the other way 'round. IDEs appeared because languages like Java require so much scaffolding. Why should I even have to see generated code, let alone write it, that's the compiler's job! Automation (which the exception of simple stuff like paran matching) doesn't add much to succinct languages because there isn't much in your code that isn't directly addressing the problem you want to solve, and that has to come from inside your own head.

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