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Why Contributing to Eclipse?
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Jon Strayer
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Why Eclipse? What's new or diffrent about Eclipse that lead you to write the book, or to think that it was important enough to be worth a book?
A long time ago I read that the average programmer bought an read less than one technical book a year. Do you happen to know if that is still true?
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Al Newman
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That was in Yourdon's Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, published in 1991(?).
I'm not sure what his source for that statement was. I was a Unix systems programmer at the time and it wasn't even true then (in my user community anyway). Today I'd guess the average may be as many as 10 books a year, with some going far beyond that. Like myself. I probably buy at least 40 books a year....
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Matthew Phillips
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Originally posted by Jon Strayer:
Why Eclipse? What's new or diffrent about Eclipse that lead you to write the book, or to think that it was important enough to be worth a book?
A lot of developers are moving to Eclipse because it is a good IDE. A book like this will benefit people who want to add to the functionality Eclipse gives them.
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Al Newman
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Originally posted by Matthew Phillips:
A lot of developers are moving to Eclipse because it is a good IDE. A book like this will benefit people who want to add to the functionality Eclipse gives them.
The fact that Eclipse is downloadable for free is important, too. Some of the commercial IDE's (JBuilder comes to mind) are incredibly frustrating to keep up with.
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