On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Andreas Kloeckner <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2012 18:26:15 +0300, Ram Rachum <[email protected]> wrote: > > The main advantage over pdb is that in pudb you can *see* everything, > like > > the lines of code and the stack, i.e. it's a GUI and not something that > > reminds you of text-based games from the DOS era. > > Hey! I have very fond memories of the DOS era! Anyone else remember > Commander Keen? Turbo Pascal? Leisure Suit Larry? Really? > > Anyway, > Old fogie Andreas > Sure, I played Keen and Leisure Suit Larry, and programmed in Turbo Pascal. They were fun. I was actually making a comparison to an even older kind of games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_Zork_running_on_Frotz_through_iTerm_2_on_Mac_OSX.png I would say that modern-day IDEs have some things to learn from Turbo Pascal, especially how accessible and– God have mercy, *helpful–* the Help menu was. Ram.
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