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This may have been a better option in the early 90's when GUI screen readers were not as good. I did z/OS Assembly programming for several years using ISPF as a text editor and submitting jobs to compile my code. I"ll gladly take an IDE with features from 1995 like renaming variables, moving to the next error, and jumping to a function definition.

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If you don't mind me asking, what kind of Mainframe stuff were you working on where writing assembly was the best way to go about it?

I was working on profiling and crash analysis software. The software had existed since the late 70's or early 80's. It was written in assembler so that's what was used to update it. If it was written from scratch it's unlikely the majority of it would be written in assembly.

Did IDEs in 1995 actually support renaming variables? I thought that was a more modern thing like 2000s.

IDEs where mostly non-existing in 1995.

I believe Smalltalk could have been considered an IDE? Just vague memories from people using it those days, I have never used it.

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Turbo Pascal, Mac Programmers' Workshop, QuickBASIC, and a variety of others would like to say hi.

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