Some people like IDE's; some don't. I've found them a mixed blessing for a number of reasons, most of which are entirely subjective. Two problems I've seen fairly often are that IDE's tend to encourage many programmers – especially inexperienced ones – tend to jump into coding too soon and that IDE's seem to encourage developers to think in terms of widgets, not in terms of data and algorithms.

COBOL, a language in which I've done essentially no work, is alive for a number of reasons, including the simple fact that is an excellent language for its problem domain. It also has a large, albeit shrinking, pool of programmers who are both very proficient in the language and very proficient in the problem domain.

emc

Information about American English usage here and here.

Any New York City or Connecticut area jobs? I'm currently unemployed.

In reply to Re: Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word by swampyankee
in thread Slow evolution of Perl = Perl is a closed Word by Anonymous Monk

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