31 Aug
2008
31 Aug
'08
11:43 p.m.
As to the argument that a "sufficiently smart IDE" would insert the "M." for me, I think that is flawed. First, there isn't a sufficiently smart IDE yet,
I do believe there will be. What we do now is sort of putting down requirements ...
and second, it'd be better for the type-aware IDE to tell me the types of things when I (for example) mouse over them, instead of helping me type longer things.
That's been said before: an IDE might help in writing/changing code, but code should be readable without tool support. J.W.