[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Walter Bright]

On 9/14/2013 1:28 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 21:52 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 9/13/2013 8:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> […]
>>> For the few souls who don't yet... http://xkcd.com/378/
>
> Emacs FTW.
>
>> I've used punch cards and paper tape. But I refused to use paddle switches.
>
> So how did you get the paper tape or punch card loader in without first
> using the paddle switches? No paddle switch manipulation, no booted
> computer. :-)

The computer was back in the machine room, and the operators booted it. I wasn't 
allowed back there. When I programmed single board computers, I blew the boot 
program into eproms.

When I finally did get my own PDP-11, the few instructions needed to initiate 
the boot were hardwired into the CPU.