Ha. I, too, experienced this same shock when I moved, as a teenager, from MS-BASIC's editor to a Pascal-based (in my case it was Turbo) full-screen editor.

Ton be honest, for the first couple of hours I can recall being very confused about how I was to approch coding with no line numbers? How was I to move to other sections of my program? What, no GOTO...help!

Little did I know at the time almost all GOTO use is bad programming and that Pascal was such an elegant and dare-I-Say beautiful language to program in. It's fairly tame use of pointers (as compared with C smashing you over the head with them) really exposed me to one of CompSci's more powerful paradigms...indirect addressing.

And, OMG, the incredible speed of both the compiler and the programs it generated simply blew my mind...esp. since its very possible I was using a 8Mhz IBM PC/AT at the time. My simulations literally ran 25x faster.

Those were heady times to be a programmer IMHO...you literally had the count the number of bytes in your data structures to squeeze every bit of memory use out of your 64k stacks and 640k DOS limits, and all sorts of tricks were used to overcome these obstacles. ..