@art_codesmith
It wouldn't be miserable at all because good programmers relish and enjoy *problem solving*.
It doesn't matter to me what level of tools I have available, so long as they are suited to the task in hand.
I began hand coding assembly language, so I understand why people might think that's awful, but they aren't good engineers, or have lost sight of what good engineering is about because of the corporate and capitalist bullshit that corruptes everything that is good.