Pixel 8 Pro - Hackdot

Re:Pixel 8 Pro by sanswork on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:01PM (#37772921)

Turbo C++ was my first IDE(a birthday present when I was a kid) and I will always be grateful of it for triggering my love of programming but to say that is even in the same category as a modern IDE is a huge stretch. Of course modern stuff is laggier for most IDE's as it's doing real time analysis on your code as you type. If you want to compare it with a Borland IDE from the 90s open up notepad and start typing.

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by pjmlp on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:06AM (#37776395)

Borland IDEs were definitly better than Notepad.

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by sanswork on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:32AM (#37776553)

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by pjmlp on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:06AM (#37776727)

Stuck in MS-DOS?

As someone that used all their products from MS-DOS, through Windows 3.x days up to switching to Visual C++ 6.0, I clearly remeber code completion, syntax highlighting and macros, three features that Notepad isn't capable of.

As easily proven, by reading the manuals available in Bitsavers.

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by sanswork on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:37AM (#37776917)

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by pjmlp on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:21AM (#37777181)

Besides moving goalposts, Notepad++ still isn't on the same league as Borland's IDEs.

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by vetinari on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:17AM (#37778918)

Turbo Pascal 7 did syntax highlighting, as well as source-level debugging. That was on top of nice-to-have features like auto-indenting.

It was a DOS, Turbo Vision application.

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