Timeline for How was programming done 20 years ago?
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| Nov 11, 2011 at 11:30 | vote | accept | Click Upvote | ||
| Mar 30, 2011 at 6:12 | comment | added | jwenting | pretty much, yes. Same as you do now when you alt-tab between the application under debug and the IDE. | |
| Mar 29, 2011 at 17:09 | comment | added | Click Upvote | @jwent So when it returned to the IDE, you could see the condition of all your variables as they were at that point in the program? | |
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| Mar 16, 2011 at 8:04 | comment | added | jwenting | same way it works in IDEs today. You'd set breakpoints, the application being debugged would run, and on a breakpoint you'd see yourself back in the IDE. Only difference is that you of course couldn't flip between them in real time. | |
| Mar 16, 2011 at 2:45 | comment | added | Click Upvote | How did the debugging work in that thing? | |
| Mar 16, 2011 at 0:55 | comment | added | JohnFx | I remember those books with the small three-whole punched paper in what amounted to a small binder. | |
| Mar 16, 2011 at 0:23 | comment | added | MadMurf | Good old Borland... if your app was too large you had to pick and choose the DLLs that you compiled with debug code or you'd crash the whole machine. | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 23:18 | comment | added | Mateen Ulhaq | Fancy Schmancy Gizmos. You wouldn't need them if you used butterfiles. | |
| Mar 15, 2011 at 18:16 | comment | added | umlcat | I learnt to use TC and TP IDE (s) in school, altought I heard there where similar tools, these cheap tools brought the I.D.E. to mainstream programming... | |
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| Mar 15, 2011 at 14:25 | history | answered | vartec | CC BY-SA 2.5 |