12 Apr
2011
12 Apr
'11
1 p.m.
On 2011 Apr 11, at 3:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I preferred a more formal development style. Edit, compile, run,
lather, rinse, repeat. Lots of different source files. The time
saved by using QuickC didn't amount to a hill of beans in the overall
picture.
I find that the more sophisticated and "helpful"the IDE, the more it
tends to disturb my thought processes.
But then, I'm old.
As a student, I was on the tail end of the keypunch/batch era. It was
painful but one good thing it did was instill the notion of doing the
design and coding correctly up-front, and forcing one to think in
detail about your program logic before running it. It was an objective
to have your program compile and then execute correctly the first time
it hit the compiler.
These days, that seems not just quaint but a radical notion.