07-13-2025 05:03 PMWriting code by hand: before IDEs, autocomplete, or even keyboards
Today, a programmer just needs to open an editor, type a few lines, press “Run” — and he immediately sees the result. Now imagine: you are a programmer in the 1960s. You have no screen, no keyboard, no Stack Overflow. All you have is paper, a pencil, and a stack of punched cards.
