If you feel that, you certainly should. Going after simpler tools may give you
somewhat different experience of programming, but for pen and paper, it&#x27;s
totally different. It has much friction along most of the axes (you can&#x27;t
cut&#x27;n&#x27;paste or easily rename your variables, and it&#x27;s difficult to pre-plan
the length of a block of instructions), but along some, the friction is
non-existent (invalid and ad-hoc created syntax, not defined functions,
ellipses for obvious arguments and statements). Combine all that and your mind
starts thinking in a different way, focusing on different things than it would
with a computer editor.<p>I find it very beneficial in the early stage of planning a program (or
a subsystem of program).