Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/24/05 05:08

Oli Filth wrote:
> Janwillem Borleffs said the following on 23/10/2005 17:06:
>
>
> Are you serious?? ;)
>
> Where's the benefit in having to remember the exact syntax for
> hundreds/thousands of functions?
>
> That's just a massive pain in the arse, and surely must slow you down
> considerably, especially when you only find you made a mistake at
> run-time... You might as well be programming in assembler if you like it
> raw! :)
>
>
> Admittedly, the benefit of class-views etc. must be somewhat limited for
> a dynamically-typed language like PHP. But in strongly-typed languages
> like C++, C# or Java that have *massive* APIs, intellisense and
> class-views etc. are an absolute god-send.
>
> IMO, being a good programmer is not about knowing the fine details of
> the language syntax; syntax is just a means to an end.
>

I'm with Janwillem on this. I use a text editor. I have no problems
remembering function names, parameters, etc. And if I do, the only help
is only a click away.

I've tried other IDEs which provide code completion, etc. I find they
slow me down.

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