http://www.berlinfactor.com/blog/2006/05/09/ruby-ides/ I mean.. What I'm trying to say is.. In a way I think.. You know? In a world gone mad.. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.berlinfactor.com/blog/2006/05/09/ruby-ides/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Craig’s Musings » Blog Archive » Ruby IDE Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:48:24 +0000 http://www.berlinfactor.com/blog/?p=27#comment-44 [...] Languages like Java and C# have a class of developers that depend on their tools such as IDEs (e.g. Bruce Tates’ assessment in From Java to Ruby: “C# programmers tend to lean on their tools a little harder than others”). Could it be that said developers depend on their tools to make themselves more productive? Answers from this camp tend to argue that the question is moot since Ruby is inherently more productive–why tax the developer’s mind with IDE semantics? (Tim Bray offers several excellent counter-points above to such a response.) [...] [...] Languages like Java and C# have a class of developers that depend on their tools such as IDEs (e.g. Bruce Tates’ assessment in From Java to Ruby: “C# programmers tend to lean on their tools a little harder than others”). Could it be that said developers depend on their tools to make themselves more productive? Answers from this camp tend to argue that the question is moot since Ruby is inherently more productive–why tax the developer’s mind with IDE semantics? (Tim Bray offers several excellent counter-points above to such a response.) [...]

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