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Syntax highlighting? Programmers these days rely on Intellisense, with tooltip help explaining parameters and return values as they type. Back in my day we wer
by sreyemhtes 15y ago
Syntax highlighting? Programmers these days rely on Intellisense, with tooltip help explaining parameters and return values as they type.
Back in my day we were lucky to have an EDIT command in our BASIC interpreter. Back in the day of someone much older than me, patching binary files directly was the norm. How would programmers today even cope, should they ever be confronted with a hex editor or worse, a front-panel bank of toggles?
- FrankenTan 15y agoI'm admittedly a newb, but I find that a lot of my programming includes trying to think in a good way and then reading documentation to figure out how to implement it. So far it has applied to every technology I've used. :p
- tomjen3 15y agoThat comparison doesn't make sense. You forget that the frameworks we use today to parse XML has more complexity than the entire OS had then. We are able to do so much more today, on code bases several thousand times larger, because we have these tools.
- pbreit 15y agoI did a quick survey of a dozen or so engineers here and 0 use IDEs/Intellisense and 100% use syntax highlighting.
- bad_wolf 15y agoWithin the last six months I used a hex editor to diagnose a problem with a PCM streaming solution and generate a "corrected" form of the output to show how my hypothesis was correct. So I think today's programmers will do just fine.