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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