ONLamp: What Developers Want

“Irrespective of the language programmers choose for expressing
solutions, their wants and needs are similar. They need to be
productive and efficient, with technologies that do not get in the
way but rather help them produce high-quality software. In this
article, we share our top ten list of programmers’ common wants and
needs.

“Many of us at SpikeSource are actively using new languages such
as Ruby, Python, and PHP; have used class libraries from Java, C++,
and .NET; have developed component-based models in MFC, STL, Rogue
Wave, CORBA, COM/DCOM, OLE, and ActiveX; have programmed in
scripting languages such as JSP/ASP/CFML/VB; and have built
architectures based on design patterns and service-oriented
architectures…”

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