Pascal with an IDE -- I'm getting college flashbacks to the Delphi 7variant of Object Pascal. It was so integrated with its IDE that finding a good starting point to learn the syntax was insurmountable within the short time I was given. However, I did manged to accomplish the task at hand by sheer luck and educating guessing. But that was years ago, and I hope to never touch Object Pascal again. At the same time I was wrestling that, I did a historical paper onPascal. In the process of researching it, I think that was the first timeI was exposed to the concept of writing out a program by hand withpencil and paper before entering it onto a computer. That blew mymind, seeing as never thought of a time before text editors and glassterminals. I'm so used to instant gratification of finding syntacticalerrors and compiling at the drop of a hat. Then again, that dates meas an individual... I should really give the alternative a try some time for the sake ofperspective. -Alexander 'Z' Pierson On Friday, January 20, 2017 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