>Seen through that lens, a programming language that requires the cybernetic prosthesis of an IDE to read and write it fluidly, is a bad programming language.
>Imagine if there was a hammer that was so badly-balanced that—despite being not too hard to lift—you needed to be wearing a powered exoskeleton to accurately hold and swing it.
You don't use IDE to be able to use language, you use IDE to increase your productivity. Instead typing whole for loop you just use shortcuts, instead of changing class name in 5 places you just change it in once. You save time.
>We can do the whole thing on paper, or a blackboard, or even purely in our mind's eye.
But do you remember that class `PurchaseHandler` has method `BegingPurchaseProcess`?
>Imagine if there was a hammer that was so badly-balanced that—despite being not too hard to lift—you needed to be wearing a powered exoskeleton to accurately hold and swing it.
You don't use IDE to be able to use language, you use IDE to increase your productivity. Instead typing whole for loop you just use shortcuts, instead of changing class name in 5 places you just change it in once. You save time.
>We can do the whole thing on paper, or a blackboard, or even purely in our mind's eye.
But do you remember that class `PurchaseHandler` has method `BegingPurchaseProcess`?