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... (one of the few competitors to the PDP-11, but not nearly as successful), with a very primitive debugger for assembly, and nothing for microcode. After that, C seemed super sophisticated! I didn't care for C++ at all (designed by committee, it was just more complicated than it needed to be). Java was okay, but in its early days, it was always a PITA to get stuff to build when you were putting together a bunch of utility functions that used different versions of the utilities they called, and then six months later with a new version of Java, it wouldn't build again. The last few years of my career, we were using C#, and I liked that a lot -- that's what I would use today to code anything new, other than HTML and Javascript for web pages. I definitely found using Visual Studio to be far, far superior to a text editor for writing code, and I do believe AI is taking all the IDEs to a whole new level! But I have to say... I'm glad I was in programming back when it was fun, and I'm really glad to be out of it now!