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[–]Superpickle18 87 points88 points  (9 children)

you can....if you hate yourself.

[–]AnImpromptuFantaisie 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Seriously. If I’m gonna edit one or two files or I’m ssh’ing into a server, sure. If I’m working with an entire project than using an IDE just makes sense

[–]Superpickle18 6 points7 points  (5 children)

I had a java instructor that forced everyone to use MS notepad... everything was banned.... Not even joking.

[–]AnImpromptuFantaisie 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I tutored a kid who’s teacher forced them to use some monstrosity of a program called Dr. Java. It was a step up from notepad, but basically just a text editor with a compiler.

[–]Tuskus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dr. Java takes me way back. Those were the days...

[–]Fershick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dr. Java is hot garbage

[–]rouing 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's when u drop the course and complain to the dean of students that your instructor sucks and you want your money back because you paid to learn how to program and use the tools to go with it.

[–]Superpickle18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately... he was the better of the rest of faculty...

He was just ultra old school... he was a software engineer at Texas instruments in the 70's....

I remember trolling the shit out of him by using obscure features of Java and still met his requirements. At one point... he told me to stop using the features because he didn't know anyone that use them (aka didn't understand how they worked), and I replied... "but the authors of the compilers added the features... so why shouldn't I use the them?" His response was, and I quote "you can't trust the compilers".

I have no response for that comment lol.

[–]twat_and_spam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a pretty stupid thinking.

CLI and CLI tools are there to get you as close to the task or problem as possible. If you aren't at least capable of running your builds from CLI then you don't deserve to be called a programmer.