Productivity and economics at software development

[Paul Rubin]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> If you focus on IDEs, your research will have pre-selected only
> certain kinds of programmers and teams, and will not necessarily
> include the best ones.

It wouldn't have occurred to me to say that Ken Iverson (APL), Peter
Deutsch (PARC Smalltalk), or Dave Moon (MIT Lisp machine) were any of
them slouches.  Some of the best programming ever done has gone into
IDE's.  It would be great if Python had anything of the caliber of
those old systems.