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Well, punched cards.
When I was allowed near VDUs I started with a text editor. A line based text editor, so you couldn't see what you were doing unless you asked for it to print your text so far. Which you didn't often, at 7 1/2 characters per second.
Slowly, I have moved on up, thinking each step a vast improvement.
"Wow! I can see my text all the time!"
"Wow! I can have move than one text file open and see them BOTH at the same time!"
"Wow! It supports TABS! I can indent!"
"Wow! It indents for me!!!!!!!"
And so on.
What we have now may require a much, much better PC to work on, but there is no way I would want to go back!
It's like cars - I can remember when they were still supplied with a starting handle so you could get them running if the battery was flat (my mother had one). Now, I jump in, turn the key, and it starts. I'm not in favour of manual cranking an engine over at all...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'm not in favour of manual cranking
Glad to hear it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ... (my mother had one).
Now you make me feel very old - My sit-up-and-beg Ford Pop would only start with its handle 
The older I get the better I was
mikeo
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When I was at Uni, a mate of mine bought his first car. Not only did it have a starting handle (which it needed at traffic lights when he stalled it) but it also had a valve radio. Looked like a normal car radio, but it was about 2 cubic feet and took a couple of minutes to warm up. I always expected it to start with the News from the Western Front, rather than Radio Caroline... 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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punch cards indeed. We sent a man to the moon WITHOUT USING A BACKSPACE KEY!
Grace + Peace
Peter N Roth, President
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I too started with punched cards (fortran on a univac 1108). i may not like all the whizbang features these days, but I SURE do not want to go back <chuckle>
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In soviet russia, cards punched you!
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Like all things it depends
1) What language I am writing in
2) Is it a quick one line change
3) Can I run an IDE in the environment
etc
But it is a trade off - speed vs power
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One with all the features and which is super fast.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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I prefer this.
Programmer's C# { Do it Better;}
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Agreed, I also prefer Visual Studio as an IDE
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I like my IDE to be:
- xcopy deployable and not require 1 hr installation time (a real pain when your in the field)
- instant startup from a cold start
- small deployment size (usb drivable) not a dvd
- most of the time intellisense will do fine
- 64bit debugging and edit and continue is very welcome
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
If the final destination is death, then we should enjoy every second of the journey.
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If the IDE is not from Borland Inprise Embarcadero, that seem to change every IDE (and every class library) in every new version, a full featured IDE is best.
E.g. Visual Studio or Eclipse.
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Uwe Keim wrote: that seem to change every IDE (and every class library) in every new version
And Microsoft DOESN'T???? 
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I thought they only do it in every second release 
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I like the IDE which is fully featured,help me to code at faster rates and also provide security to my code
Be Simple
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how an IDE will provide security to your code?? 
Leonardo Paneque
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