I do most of my programming in java and I use eclipse which just makes\u00a0everything real easy. I can refactor, flip between source files, look\u00a0up every instance of something with a few keystrokes and in a matter\u00a0of seconds.<\/p>\n
This past week I had to work on fixing a C program I wrote a few years\u00a0ago. My dev environment for C programs isn’t quite as snappy as my\u00a0java environment and I had to do a bunch of things the old school way.\u00a0A text editor, a compiler that I actually have to invoke rather that\u00a0being run automatically every time I hit save and so on.<\/p>\n
It was a much smaller program than anything I usually work on but\u00a0because of the environment involved, everything went a lot slower. I\u00a0had to wait longer between writing something and testing, and between\u00a0saving and compiling, and between debugging a line and seeing the\u00a0watch variables get updated. Every little step of the entire process\u00a0is slower.<\/p>\n
And it makes the whole thing take longer as a result, but\u00a0interestingly, it keeps my attention. While you’re in the thick of\u00a0programming, getting distracted is the kiss of death, so I have to\u00a0maintain my concentration for much longer periods of time, which gives\u00a0me more time to think in the context in which I’m working, and gives
\nme time to think through some of the things I’m doing so that I do the\u00a0right thing the first time instead of doing it wrong and then doing it\u00a0again, but it’s so quick it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n
And the time just whipped right by, and I’m wondering if that’s not\u00a0where my love of programming went. Killed by the rapid application\u00a0development environment.<\/p>\n
Making programming brainlessly easy (java combined with eclipse) takes the fun out of it.\u00a0When was the last time I had to worry about a deallocating memory to avoid a memory leak? Years. Have I had a need to make something go so fast that it could only be done in a non-java language? Not in a long long time. 1991 I think. They just keep making hardware faster and faster.<\/p>\n
I’m a dying breed I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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