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Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.

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[–] TinyRhino@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 5 points 20 hours ago

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
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[–] Daniikk1012@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (3 children)
[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I remember ed! He's the talking horse from that old black and white show, right?

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No one can code with a horse, of course. That is of course, unless the horse is the famous mr Ed.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nano is fine. But Micro is a worthwhile upgrade: https://micro-editor.github.io/

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I started with Pico. ;)

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

Nano is love.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago

I write all my code on paper and use OCR to convert it. It almost works sometimes.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)
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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 21 hours ago

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

[–] vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

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[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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."

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.

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helix ftw 🧬

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Winks in Notepad ;)

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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A fireable offense.

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