I regret nothing. Say what you want.
Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.
If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong
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The person that codes in MS paint
This feels a little bit like Brainfuck tbh.
For what it’s worth, I can think of one thing that would make brainfuck even worse: Instead of using 8 arbitrary characters (it only uses > < + - . , ] and [ for every instruction) for the coding, use the 8 most common letters of the alphabet. Since it ignores all other characters, all of your comments would need to be done without those 8 letters.
For example, “Hello World” in brainfuck is the following:
++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.
If we instead transposed those 8 instructions onto the 8 most common letters of the alphabet, it would look more like this:
eeeeeeeeaneeeeaneeneeeneeenesssstonenentnneasostonnIntttIeeeeeeeIIeeeInnIstIsIeeeIttttttIttttttttInneIneeI
This is such a waste of time to the point where it infuriates me. I know the standard answer is "why not?", but it's just cringe to, like you are trying too hard to purposely be stupid, whereas with standard text editor you can say already they cba'ed to install anything so it was a case of initial setup vs. long term productivity.
NANO is life.
Nano is fine. But Micro is a worthwhile upgrade: https://micro-editor.github.io/
I started with Pico. ;)
Nano is love.
I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.
Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.
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I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.
Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!
I'm doing my part
Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.
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Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.
Tab means "move to the next tabstop", not "advance a fixed amount".
(I don't do it, I'm not THAT insane)
Me: hits return.
Word: "Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE."
Me: "That's nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before." Hits delete.
Word: "Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before."
Me: "No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele..."
Word: "Why of course!"
Me: "Shit, it's gone. Undo! Hmm... Move the thingy here on top?"
Word: "Move all the lines you say? No problem!"
Me: "Nvm, I'll just indent everything by hand with spaces."
I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.
I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.
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helix ftw 🧬
Winks in Notepad ;)
A fireable offense.
Vi came with Ubuntu.