Foot in mouth disease

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Nov 3 10:29:39 EST 2002


In article <3dc52a19.3339913 at news.cybermesa.com>,
Jay O'Connor <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>On 1 Nov 2002 23:06:06 -0500, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>>
>>So I've been having a friendly argument for a long time with a friend of
>>mine who's a real Java booster.  The current iteration was sparked by a
>>discussion of extreme programming, where along the way I repeated what
>>some people here have mentioned about Python being easier to refactor
>>than Java.  She asked me what -- if any -- Java-based tools were used by
>>the experienced Java programmers who made that claim.  She thinks that
>>those tools are superior to plain text editors (which are really all
>>that's needed for Python).
>>
>>Anyone wanna help me out here?
>
>Nope, sorry.  I really like Python, but I still miss the development
>tools I have when using Smalltalk

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.
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