19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
4:42 p.m.
On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at
xenosoft.com> wrote:
I've never quite gotten the hang of an IDE. When I was *required* (damned build
environment) to use it, I only used it as a graphical compiler. Everything else
(edit & run/test) was done outside of the IDE.
Of course, I started writing FORTRAN on an 029 keypunch and had to load the
card deck (complier was on disk), compile the code, link it, get an output deck
and then I could run that (this was on an IBM 1130 at the time). Was *really*
happy when we got WATIV and could do a "compile and go" when I was testing
code (lots few cards to toss) but still needed a deck for the "real" runs
because
that had to be run off hours.
TTFN - Guy
I got my start punching Hollerith cards and
handing in a box of them at
the computer center window. :-)
In my first semester of teaching FORTRAN, I had a student who had taken
multiple programming classes at Cal-State Hayward. But, she did not know
what the word "COMPILE" meant! She had always turned in her program at
the window, and picked up her output later.
THAT is why I made my C students use both a command line compiler AND an
IDE.