Re: New sections to the Standard Pascal website

thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> IMHO IDEs do improve productivity, but the bottleneck is
> somewhere else. I think that most of the time spend
> in programming is not spend writing the program. It
> is the time used to find an algorithm, to decide over the
> interfaces to other modules and and the time spend for
> similar high level tasks. I guess that good programmers
> spend more time thinking over the design of a program than
> writing it. That is my critic about IDEs: Managers expect
> that programs written in classic (old) languages can be
> written twice as fast because of the IDE. This is totally
> missleading since a programming language and it's libraries
> can improve the productivity of a programmer much more than
> an IDE. An IDE cannot turn a bad design into a good one,
> but the features of a programming language can lead the
> programmer to use a better design.

Yes, I had one job where they had a ****ny new IDE, and I work
by printing out listings, looking them over, and writing
changes in the right margins. It drove them crazy. They
were always trying to get me to use the IDE more.

Scott