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Re:Old school developers - achieving a lot with little by pjmlp on Saturday July 21, 2012 @01:38PM (#4275286)
> I would argue if you're using Java, using an IDE is the only way to stay sane. Context aware class navigation is pretty much a requirement on any sizable project.

This applies to any language, not just Java.

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Re:Old school developers - achieving a lot with little by orangecat on Saturday July 21, 2012 @06:23PM (#4275869)
It's not so much the language as the practices that have developed around it, such as the "everything happens somewhere else" principle of strong OOP. Which has some advantages, but means that you'll be flipping through lots of classes to trace most code paths.
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Re:Old school developers - achieving a lot with little by pjmlp on Sunday July 22, 2012 @03:53AM (#4276739)
If you have a large codebase written by several generations of developers you'll get this. Even in languages without OO support.
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