Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:54:28 +0300 (IDT)
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On 24 Aug 1999, P.B. Davis wrote:

> Yes indeed. I for one am interested in writing Windows programmes in a
> Windows environment. I have no idea what bash and grep and all those other
> utilities with funny names do, but I don't seem to have missed then in the
> several months I have been writing C.

Well, one can use Notepad as their sole programming tool and ``never 
miss'' the rest.  I have seen large projects that were developed with a 
line editor which even Notepad will blow out of the water.

The point is that the additional tools boost your productivity, and once 
you see what they can do for you, you will never want to go back.  Like a 
debugger, a profiler, a document-writing system, etc.

> I never want to see a command line prompt again.

Given a good IDE, you won't need the command line to use all those 
tools.  For example, Emacs has packages that invoke most of the tools 
behind the scenes for you, and provides nice user interfaces for all of 
them that all fit into a development paradigm which is hard to beat.