> That sounds awfully close to "books will ruin the world. If people stop memorizing their scriptures they'll stop believing" and complaints against progress.

> That sounds awfully close to "books will ruin the world. If people stop memorizing their scriptures they'll stop believing" and complaints against progress. Ok, so wow! No! Definitely not the message I was trying to convey. I love books, have many of them, don't read as much as I'd like, but would _certainly_ love to have more of them memorized! I'm always jealous of those folks who can recite poems from memory and the like. > "I write by hand. Using a typewriter will take me away further away from the essence of 'writing'" etc... Off (my) topic, but because you brought it up, writing by hand does increase memory retention! (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...) > "Why would I email? Fax works fine for me and I get a hard copy" etc... Well... I do have a very nice laser printer and tend to print whitepapers even though I have a really nice iPad to read them on. So I guess all of the above could add up to me being a bit of a luddite, which I accept, but really I guess I was just expressing my way of retaining and improving my own knowledge of programming languages that I like. Hard copy reading, hand writing (which I don't actually do much of) and navigating scaladocs instead of tab-completion helps me do that. As I also said, if my job depending on my coding output, I would absolutely use a full featured IDE of one sort or another.