It would look a lot like emacs, one of those guys with 100+ buffers simultaneously open who does everything in emacs from git to IRC to controlling their music

It would look a lot like emacs, one of those guys with 100+ buffers simultaneously open who does everything in emacs from git to IRC to controlling their music player. They get a lot of humor involuntarily applied to them, they also get a lot done. If you get the "privilege" of working on COBOL it has native record/DB storage ability which can make life get really weird. Not until Perl in the 90s did we have a DB API so closely and popularly tied to the language.