Charles Petzold has similar things to say about IDE autocompletion (http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html http://www.charlespetzold.

Charles Petzold has similar things to say about IDE autocompletion (http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind...). The article also reminds me of Brian Kernighan's remarks regarding debugging (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan): "The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"