Abelson: Yeah, well, that’s it. We’re making all this hairy stuff. One of the things that I’ve started to understand in these languages is the incredible importance of the development environment. I couldn’t even begin to program in Java without Eclipse. I mean, it’s just such an enormously complex thing, and you are using imports and libraries and interfaces so much. I wouldn’t know how to manage it without an IDE. That’s the thing that I didn’t appreciate enough before coming to a place like Google.
Hal Abelson, writing code in Java (for Google) and using Eclipse.