Why is an IDE needed or even useful for this process? cat >hello.c #include <stdio.h> void main (void) { printf("hello world\n"); } ^D gcc -o hello hello.c ./hello hello world In the next iteration, to debug your program, replace "cat >hello.c" with "vi hello.c" or "emacs hello.c" Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 01/20/2017 12:42 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
But I digress. You get the point.
Indeed I do. Even in plain old HTML4, I work with nothing but a text editor. I know plenty of "smart" people who insist on using a bloated development program. My pages are small and tight, theirs aren't.
EXACTLY. So you have an understanding of the problem from another direction. It's far, far worse with an IDE wrapped around a compiler, but it's for exactly the same reasons.
Right now I probably shouldn't be making big decisions. Planning all the
details for VCF East XII, working on the Lego project, writing a whole other BASIC program for a museum demo, doing a bunch of other cool VCFed stuff I can't yet reveal :), and (oh yeah) doing actual work for my daytime job. Learn a new programming language at the same time? That's something only an E... errr fool would do.
And yet many fools do. :) I'm sure you can do this. Just go do it. You'll be fine. And if you're not, you know where to get help.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA