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The Developer’s Art Today: Aikido or Sumo?: Software development, tools, and whether or not they make us more productive

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About once a month the Queue Advisory Board gets together for dinner to hammer out ideas for upcoming issues. Well, a few months back we fell into discussion about the problems surrounding software development these days. A few of us piped up straight away that tools are very important. Others countered, “Oh, sure, but do they help or do they hurt?” And so this issue was born.

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          cover image Queue
          Queue  Volume 1, Issue 6
          Developer Tools
          September 2003
          60 pages
          ISSN:1542-7730
          EISSN:1542-7749
          DOI:10.1145/945131
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