> The fact that we still write software by hand using lines of source code in a text editor is pretty ridiculous to me. It's not that far removed from punch car

> The fact that we still write software by hand using lines of source code in a text editor is pretty ridiculous to me. It's not that far removed from punch cards. Well, it wasn't hard to beat punch cards in terms of convenience (BTW did you use them once?), but apparently it's very difficult to beat text editors because they've survived for 50+ years despite the fact the mouse was available in the 80s and that people have been saying that sort of thing once in a while for at least 3 decades.