Sorry, I misspoke. I'm a writer of books, magazine articles and essays as well as a programmer. Going from a text-based word processor, like WordPerfect 4.1, to a GUI word processor, like MS Write or Word, was a great step backwards, as the graphical appearance - fonts, bold, point size, margins - became of more concern than finishing a good thought. Much too distracting, imo.
I agree with you that going from the line-based editors to the full-screen editors was a great leap forward. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How do *REAL* programmers work? Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know my writing suffered as I went from text editors >to word processing, and I suspect there are analogues in >programming. On the other hand, sometimes that picture >really is worth a thousand words. I hope there's a happy >medium. Hmm. I felt that going from the typewriter model text editors to the screen-oriented word processors was a quantum improvement, because it facilitated verbal composition with attention to structure as well as expression. I felt some of the same orders of magnitude improvement from going into a decent IDE for the first time, because linking debugging and source editor windows and multiple module views was so powerful. It freed me from the mechanical issues of different tools and allowed me to focus on the logical constructs I was using the toolset to build. just an observation from a different point of view. -Bruce McCulley _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
