ActiveState going the wrong way

[Dave Brueck]

> | Can gVim do the following?
> |
> | a) Have autocompletion / intellisense in the editor.
>
> no, this is one feature that would be really cool.  OTOH, it makes for
> a lazy coder who can't (doesn't, rather) remember the
> function/variable names.  (This is from experience using JBuilder for
> a while)

Hi D-Man,

Lazer coder? How about "makes for a more productive coder". Just as Python
is nifty for doing a lot of the developer's grunt work, a good IDE or editor
can boost your productivity by not forcing you to go look up function
prototypes and what not.

Lack of autocompletion tends to _encourage_ laziness and _lower_
productivity. One example is that because the coder has to type out the full
variable and function names he ends up naming them something short and less
descriptive, making the code less clear and harder to maintain. Worse, the
coder then adds a useless comment to tell the purpose of the function, the
same information that a decent function name would have conveyed.

-Dave