Programmers sometimes overlook some of the most powerful tools for years before discovering them. Good tools can make your life a lot easier. Tools are readily available for editing, analyzing code quality, refactoring, version control, debugging, testing, and code tuning. You can make many of the special-purpose tools you need. Good tools can reduce the more tedious aspects of software development, but they can't eliminate the need for programming, although they will continue to reshape what we mean by "programming."
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