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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Sat, 05 Apr 2003
Eclipse == JDAM
Carlos responded to my response (Carlos, I was at the IBM Center for Java Technology in Silicon Valley -- I was part of the team that brought you XML4J, now known as Xerces-J.):
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The Eclipse environment in the programming language arms race is equivalent to those JDAM GPS guided bombs. These weapons are cheap, it changes the battlefield in a revolutionary way. So the next time someone argues to you that C# has a nice syntactic feature, show him how Eclipse makes that irrelevant.As interesting proof of that claim, this morning Simon Fell said:
I think now more than ever, Microsoft's competition is closing in on area's that MSFT has in the past been way ahead of everyone else. For example, development IDE's, for a long time Visual Studio was way ahead of anything else, but now Eclipse gives it a serious run for its money, I find there are features in Eclipse that I miss when I switch back to VS.NET, and that it makes me a more productive Java programmer than VS.NET makes me a C# programmer (although I find the CLR's BCL to be more productive than the Java 1.4 class library).The reason for this is that Eclipse is not just a text editor. It understands programs. The builtin compiler generates a bunch of data structures that are kept around and fed back into the editor/searching whatever. This is where the power comes from.
Interesting, was that the group that was created after the fall of Taligent?
I know another Leung, he was a roomate of mine at IBM, well he moved to there to help out on the JMF stuff.
Posted by Carlos E. Perez at Sun Apr 6 05:07:55 2003
I know another Leung, he was a roomate of mine at IBM, well he moved to there to help out on the JMF stuff.
Posted by Carlos E. Perez at Sun Apr 6 05:07:55 2003
Yes, that was the group. The JMF people were downstairs from us for a bit.
Posted by Ted Leung at Sun Apr 6 10:56:34 2003
Posted by Ted Leung at Sun Apr 6 10:56:34 2003
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