Preface

Humans need to feel nurtured and cared for. Humans also need to nurture and care for others. Fulfilling the need to nurture and be nurtured is what makes becoming a fully functioning Eclipse programmer so satisfying. This experience is wrapped in all sorts of rational explanations—“productivity,” “time-to-market,” “leverage.” Eclipse is a productive environment in which to work, and contributing to it makes it more so. The right contributions written by the right person can create a highly leveraged reduction in time-to-market. While these explanations are true, though, they aren't the point.

Working in Eclipse feels good to us because our needs are being taken care of by our environment. When we have a programming problem, there is an ...

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