FrozenVoid's (lack of) IDE

http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1321439259/23

Reducing typing is a noble goal, but any programmer worth his salt would write a decent .vimrc instead of abusing the cpp.

* All your nifty macros take up half of the code you produce
* These macros need to be lifted from project to project
* You end up producing code that is hard to understand for people who haven't memorized your macros.
* You can't use the macros while hacking *any* OSS

in short: learn to use a decent IDE and all these cpp abuses become obsolete. have a nice day.

>decent IDE
>haven't memorized your macros.
I don't memorize any macros myself, if i need i just read them from the start of file.
What you need is to develop decent memory skills if you can't read a dozen #define's into your brain.
People which ignore #define treating them as useless constant blocks should not use C at all and instead move to simpler languages such as python.