[danford]

If you join my team and tell me you're a programmer but when you sit down with a terminal you have no idea what to do, then you're off my team and I don't respect you as a programmer.

Sorry if this offends you, but how can you consider your self a programmer when you don't know how to use a terminal?

[crimsonalucard]

So Windows programmers, according to you aren't programmers?

[danford]

Do windows programmers not know how to use a terminal?

[yulaow]

For the most part they don't even need to know how to use a terminal, even to manage a server.

[JoelHobson]

I'd consider someone a programmer if they can program. Whatever their preferred workflow is, is completely irrelevant if they can deliver.

[WorldWideWayne]

Why would I sit down with a terminal when I don't need a terminal to do the type of programming that I do?

Furthermore, anyone who knows how to type and read knows how to use a terminal - it's really not that special of a skill mate :)

[danford]

What programming do you do? css?

[WorldWideWayne]

I do C# in Visual Studio all day long. Rarely (if ever) need to touch the terminal. Hundreds of thousands of people use my apps. But nope - I guess I'm not a real programmer because "I don't prefer the terminal". Give us a break mate. Nobody agrees with you.

[danford]

WorldWideWayne thanks for opening my eyes. You sure are smart. :^)

edit: I just had to post this from your comment history, I think we could both use a chuckle:

"I'm the other VIC-20 vote so far and I don't know where my family had gotten that computer. It came with a book of BASIC programs that you could type in but we didn't have have a storage unit (tape drive), so each time I wanted to play a game I had to type the entire program in and run it. Most of the time I asked my mom to type it in for me, but I remember a couple of times that I spent the hour hunting and pecking in order to play my favorite game (Moon Rover or something, I forget the name)."

You still getting mom to type in terminal commands for you?