How do *REAL* programmers work?

[bmcculley at rcn.com]

Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:

>I know my writing suffered as I went from text editors 
>to word processing, and I suspect there are analogues in 
>programming. On the other hand, sometimes that picture 
>really is worth a thousand words. I hope there's a happy
>medium.

Hmm.  I felt that going from the typewriter model text editors
to the screen-oriented word processors was a quantum
improvement, because it facilitated verbal composition with
attention to structure as well as expression.  I felt some of
the same orders of magnitude improvement from going into a
decent IDE for the first time, because linking debugging and
source editor windows and multiple module views was so
powerful.  It freed me from the mechanical issues of different
tools and allowed me to focus on the logical constructs I was
using the toolset to build.

just an observation from a different point of view.

-Bruce McCulley