[loewenskind]

>After a few years of teaching new recruits how to program, this still amazes me: so many people will go a day without compiling once!

I can go a long time without compiling but that's because I use IDE tools that show me instantly if I have compiler errors, etc. :)

[edanm]

This is without a doubt a huge benefit of IDEs (and compiled languages, since with interpreted you don't really get the same benefit). I wish more people realized how great the benefit of this: I suspect most people dismiss it without ever trying.

[scott_s]

But they can't show you if you have logic errors. The more code you write without testing it, the harder it is to test.