Productivity and economics at software development

[Peter Hansen]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> 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.

Then we're on the same page, Paul, since I would never say that any of 
those people, nor many others who use or create IDEs, were slouches.

If you thought I said that, I believe you're parsing my statement 
incorrectly, or using incorrect logic.

-Peter