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bitwise via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 22 19:24:51 PDT 2017


On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 19:46:00 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 19:24:08 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 at 00:33:17 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> If you need an IDE to figure out what your code is doing, 
>>> that's an epic fail IMHO. Walter has made similar statements 
>>> on several occasions.
>>
>> There was a time that people would write code with even modest 
>> performance requirements in assembler for fear of what the 
>> compiler would spit out, but that's in the past, as is the 
>> notion of trying to develop without an IDE.
>
> You shouldn't rely on an IDE to compensate poor language 
> design. That is coming from a guy who prefers IDE's.

Platitudes cause poor language design, not the completely 
reasonable expectation of good tools.


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