Development environment

[Guy Mengel]

Hello  Mr. Bezemer

Long time lurker and reader here.  Thanks for all you write.  Keeps my grey matter thinking 

Say, quick question.  What does your development environement look like?

Rpi, Linux box?, windows?   Just curious.

Thank you!

Guy

[Hans Bezemer]

Hi Guy!

 

Well, *MOST* of my development has been with ether Gedit or Kate (that one mostly on my old machine). It has a prompt so if I want to repeat a command, all I have to do is <arrow up><enter>. That thing is now part of my muscle memory, so it requires little or no thought.

 

But it all started with MS-DOS and Bingo (some programmable editor, which I programmed to mimic PC-Write). I skipped Windows entirely. Sometimes for work, I used Wordpad under Windows - and continued with Linux at home, same program. You can do that with 4tH. ;-)

 

Under both Gedit and Kate I use the standard Forth highlighters, for uBasic/4tH I wrote my own.

 

You know,  I don't ask that much from my development environment - so simple tools can do. If I misspell anything, 4tH will tell me anyway so a quick session like:

 

$ pp4th -dn program.4th

(correction), arrow up, bang!

(correction), arrow up, bang!

(correction), arrow up, bang!

(correction), arrow up, bang!

 

Will essentially do. I've used Pi's as my main machine (!), so yeah - been there, done that. But I tend to buy a sub-top Intel machine every few years - and that will have to do for the following years - or until the caps blow off (which actually happened in 2018).

 

Hans Bezemer

Op 26-05-2026 10:22 CEST schreef Guy Mengel <g...@eastroad.org>:

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