Foot in mouth disease

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Friday 01 November 2002 20:06, 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?

if trained to use a tool you are good with a tool.  If trained to accomplish 
the task by hand you can be just as good that way.  Each developer approaches 
code differently.