Looks like he has ADHD. Maybe somebody with more time can go through his blog post line-by-line and figure out what's going on.
Most of my Coderpad stuff compiles and runs the first time, so I don't use his incremental test method, or see a need for it. Maybe he learned programming on heavy-weight IDEs and got trapped mentally in those?
That sounds ad-hominem. I found the post perfectly readable.
Maybe he learned programming on heavy-weight IDEs and got trapped mentally in those?
Maybe he just thinks differently than you do? His body of work is not suggestive of someone "trapped" in an IDE or other dysfunctional midset.
I’m very capable of focusing when there is a lot of money on the line.
As someone who had courses in C on paper, i can only say that it's a colossal waste of time. Tooling exists to make lives easier, gain time and productivity, why avoid it?
It'd be like saying only the farmer who can do everything by hand without any tools increasing their productivity is a real one. Or an accountant refusing to use Excel/calcuators/ERPs and writing everything on paper.
And before anyone jumps to conclusions, i often write small scripts with vim with a minimal setup, but when I'm doing anything complex i prefer to use an IDE
You're trying to map manual work onto engineering.
And absolutely I'd rather work with accountnant who can write me on paper without Excel/calculator/ERP his logic.
It's like you're being obtuse just for the sake of the argument. Someone who can clearly express themselves without specific medium, be it paper, IDE or whatever is strictly superior to someone who is tied to one specific medium.
How does it actively helps and avoids small human errors in reasoning.
> I'd prefer the person knowing using it instead of sticking an old and imperfect method out of pride.
What does even pride have to do with this?
Because reasoning is only a part of everything to be done. An IDE can help with typos, best practices ( global variables, lack of error checking, etc) which are tedious things that take time. Isn't it better to the things that matter instead?
Which applies to everyone? Take IDE out of equation and what do you have?
I'm just like them, only my ide is notepad++.
My code never compiles on first attempt, and never runs correctly on the first attempt.