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No, they have debuggers and modern dev tools. They just prefer to read code from paper when they have to really focus on it for a long time.
by throwaway7767 11y ago
No, they have debuggers and modern dev tools. They just prefer to read code from paper when they have to really focus on it for a long time.
- roghummal 11y agoIn my experience, it's less about reading code on paper than it is the other thing you mentioned: >then they annotate it with a pen while thinking about whatever problems they are solving. Paper and pen offer a lot of options you don't have in vim (or emacs/notepad.exe/etc ;)). Circling, doodling, arrows, underlining, furiously scribbling...