Worth reading...
I *think* that I came across the first article via Larry Ostermans' blog. It makes the interesting point that even if you can trust the sourcecode that you're compiling, can you trust the compiler...?
The second article raises some even more interesting points. The parts that interest me are those that hint at the reliance we have begun to have on Intellisense and other IDE niceties. Yes, Intellisense allows developers to concentrate on WHAT they are doing, and less on HOW they do it. But, does that always mean that the developer will choose the BEST way to do what they need to do? There are some languages that don't lend themselves to intellisense, like SQL but even then, there are ways of getting around that
Code somehow seems like it was a lot more "fun" back in the days when an IDE was simple, like QuickBasic.
