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>> The original article seems to base this on the flawed assumption talent and choice of tools are not related. The article does say they could be related: "A
by losvedir 16y ago
>> The original article seems to base this on the flawed assumption talent and choice of tools are not related.
The article does say they could be related:
"Another possibility is that super-programmers are attracted to Lisp."
That would be a strong correlation. However, the article is about causality, though. If the truth is that
Programming talent -> Choose Lisp
Then it is not necessarily the case that
Choose Lisp -> Programming talent
- rbanffy 16y agoSorry for the poorly thought out post. Anyway, as was pointed out elsewhere, someone can write a web CRUD in Rails in 1% of the time it would take to write it in C with Apache modules (or ISAPI DLLs). Choosing the wrong tool can have disproportionate effects. Having a large tool set is one of the hallmarks of the great programmer. One example off the top of my head: a friend of mine was struggling for a week to deliver a simple J2ME (it was 2002 or 2003) app using Eclipse. I directed him towards NetBeans. The product was ready that same afternoon. The IDE support in NetBeans was so complete his job was more a fill-in-the-blanks than anything else.
- losvedir 16y agoOh, I see what you mean. I agree completely.