Foot in mouth disease

[Bryan L. Fordham]

Aahz wrote

>I'm afraid I was insufficiently clear: I'm looking for people who are
>familiar with using refactoring tools with Java but still find Python
>easier to refactor.
>  
>

A lot of it, of course, depends on you religion 8)

I've worked at a company (now owned by verisign) for almost 2 years, and 
all the development produced in my department is in java.  But, to me, 
it's much quicker for me to hack out quick scripts in python that 
produce java code than it is to try and do that in java.  I've gotten a 
few people there to install python, and they all find it much easier to 
use than java.

To me, refactoring is easier in python; my method is to hack out things 
at the commandline and then, when I get something working, dump it into 
a module.  That works well for me and is much quicker than the 
write-compile-debug-repeat cycle one is forced into with java.

As far as tools, I can't stand IDE's, but that's just me; I'm used to 
text editors and so I am quicker in those.  I try and stay out of those 
"debates" as everyone stickes to their own opinion.  My take is that you 
should use what works best for you.

--B