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by rramadass 49 days ago
> But to unable to run actual code at all? Come on. Who learns programming that way?

Edsger Dijkstra was a proponent of that approach i.e. develop program and proof by hand in a language for which there is no compiler/interpreter.

I wrote about it here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985605