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Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by 9front on Saturday August 21, 2021 @01:31PM (#28258840)
The Hole-Hawg drill is the IDE equivalent. Recently discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28015229
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Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by the_third_wave on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:32PM (#28260752)
No, a Hole-Hawg [1] - made famous in these circles by Neal Stephenson's essay 'In the beginning was the command line' [1] - is just a powerful drill without any bells and whistles, a "lump of metal with a handle sticking out of it". It would be more sort of an 'ed on steroids', trading off ease of use for raw power.

[1] https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/Power-Tools/Drilling/...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180218045352/http://www.crypto...

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