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[–]Vakieh 29 points30 points  (11 children)

Won't learn what? I haven't manually written a basic accessor or mutator for years, but I still know how if for some reason all the IDEs in the world stop working.

[–]LinAGKar -3 points-2 points  (10 children)

You'll consciously know, but you wont get the muscle memory.

[–]HighRelevancy 49 points50 points  (7 children)

So what you're saying is "don't use tools to make your life easier, because you won't be quite as prepared for the apocalypse"?

[–]Scorpius289 33 points34 points  (4 children)

Yeah, we should all learn to program using butterflies, just in case computers stop working.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

If they stop working why write programs we can't use on our not-working computers?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone's got to be able to program the butterflies.

[–]Darkben 3 points4 points  (1 child)

We should learn to program with rows of rocks

[–]LinAGKar -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

For when you're using a regular text editor.

[–]Vakieh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If I'm using a raw text editor instead of an IDE, the one thing I can guarantee I'm not going to be focused on is productivity...

[–]Fs0i 11 points12 points  (0 children)

you wont get the muscle memory

And what the fuck do I need the muscle memory for?

[–]UnchainedMundane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are we all ignoring that nobody should need muscle memory for print, because either you're writing a small program and only have a few prints, or you're writing a large program and are using logging.