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		johndubchak on June 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books s... My point was that with a modern IDE we can do that without resorting to a full compile, which can be burdensome with large codebases. The IDE space has improved a lot since 2004, eg. Jetbrains' tools around refactoring and code cleanup suggestions, make things super simple. Don't get me wrong, I've read this book, multiple times, it's on my bookshelf and think it's a great book, but it was written when the state of development was a much different landscape, IMO.

biot on June 5, 2017 [–]

Leaning on incremental compile via a modern IDE is leaning on the compiler. The principle is the same, even if the implementation slightly differs.

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