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AFAIK the first "IDE" was the one in the original BASIC, or at least the first one to called that. It was command-line based (no fancy GUIs back then) but it al
by badsectoracula 7y ago
AFAIK the first "IDE" was the one in the original BASIC, or at least the first one to called that. It was command-line based (no fancy GUIs back then) but it allowed editing, debugging and compiling (despite BASIC dialects being commonly interpreted, the original BASIC was a compiler) from the same environment.
- analog31 7y agoBEEP... BASIC > I have to admit that I still judge programming tools, and in fact, entire computers, against the beloved BASIC prompt. You flipped a switch, got a BEEP, and 3 seconds later, you were in heaven. Today the closest thing for me is firing up a PC and opening a Jupyter notebook. But it's certainly not the same.
- dhosek 7y agoI remember wondering how on earth you could write Pascal programs without line numbers since that was the difference between running a command and entering/editing a program in the Apple ][ environment. I don't remember if Apple Pascal had what would qualify as an IDE now, although it had its own OS which made it less attractive to me.
- zozbot234 7y ago> I remember wondering how on earth you could write Pascal programs without line numbers You use a program called EDLIN that writes the line numbers for you, and even renumbers your lines automatically whenever you have to insert something in the middle of your program. It's really neat!
- pjmlp 7y agoI did my first text processing exam using edlin, "It's really neat!" isn't something I would use to describe it.
- wiz21c 7y agoI think I recall UCSD Pascal which had a sort of IDE. There' a video on IMSAI, I sued the Apple version IIRC... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5IKhv4Akw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5IKhv4Akw