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by praptak 5351 days ago
My first programs ran on a programmable calculator. I wish I could have kept the habits I had back then. Drawing block schemata on paper before coding seemed tedious but it was in fact valuable. Damn you lord Sinclair and your ZX Spectrum for providing a full screen "editor" which let me skip the design phase. And it didn't really have cut'n'paste in the modern sense.

(Edited) Also: http://clonedigger.sourceforge.net/ Use it for great good.

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I'm not sure the original ZX Spectrum editor qualifies as "full screen" as selecting a line and visually editing that line are separate tasks. It has more in common with RegEdit than with Notepad.