[andhapp]

Sounds awesome to me... I wonder what would we all IDE autocompletion slaves do. I actually had to once write an entire grails project in EditPlus. No auto completion or fancy refactoring of IntelliJ just because the company would not spend the money. Is Joel listening?

[mahmud]

wrt to IDE auto-completion: when you write by hand you don't actually write correct programs. You make assumptions about what level of detail you want: the mundane and boiler-plate parts can be ignored, or reduced to a descriptive function name (e.g. GET-INPUT) then the interesting parts can be fleshed out to any sufficient detail. Usually as I progress through a project, my later "models" of it are smaller, as I have understood all the components piecemeal. I tend to draw a few squares when I fully understand a problem, otherwise it's a long rambling into emacs' org-mode.