YES! I've been programming for 55 years, so far, and have never used an IDE except for one year playing with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. I've always answered qu

YES! I've been programming for 55 years, so far, and have never used an IDE except for one year playing with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. I've always answered questions over on /r/learnpython like this: Q: I want to learn python, what IDE should I install? A: Why learn both python _and_ an IDE? Just learn python on the commandline. Though I'm happy in my curmudgeonly rut, it's nice to meet a fellow minimalist aesthete.