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minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down2·2 months agoI once wrote C# code in MS Word because the only other option was Notepad.
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoIt was school work. All I needed was some proper visual indentations and a monospaced font.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-22 months agoRight, so Notepad. The indentations in Word won’t be “proper;” they’re based on physical dimensions, not characters.
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoLike I said, all I needed was visual indentation. C# doesn’t have significant whitespaces. As long as you account for all of the braces and semicolons, you could write an entire program in a single line.
minus-squarecheddar@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·2 months agoI was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, writing my first html code in notepad. And I was happy about that.
minus-squareDeestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoI wrote some code with ed once. It had a nice, calm insanity to it.
minus-squareludlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoI honestly don’t understand how notepad is a worse alternative to word. Word is great for formatting documents but not code.
minus-squareSheridan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou’re not alone https://youtu.be/X34ZmkeZDos
I once wrote C# code in MS Word because the only other option was Notepad.
You made the wrong choice.
It was school work. All I needed was some proper visual indentations and a monospaced font.
Right, so Notepad.
The indentations in Word won’t be “proper;” they’re based on physical dimensions, not characters.
Like I said, all I needed was visual indentation. C# doesn’t have significant whitespaces. As long as you account for all of the braces and semicolons, you could write an entire program in a single line.
Right.
In Notepad.
I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago, writing my first html code in notepad. And I was happy about that.
ASP and PHP, too.
I wrote some code with
edonce. It had a nice, calm insanity to it.I honestly don’t understand how notepad is a worse alternative to word.
Word is great for formatting documents but not code.
You’re not alone
https://youtu.be/X34ZmkeZDos