Comment by einpoklum

I was a TA in an "Intro to Compute Science" class in the naughts, and using Borland C was quite popular among students who were on Windows.

I never heard a single student complain about the IDE, even though most of them were used to GUI apps only. It was very intuitive and convenient to use. I wish we had nicer TUI tools today - I often miss them when I work remotely over a thin connection passing through a couple of proxies/gateways/etc which have trouble with X or VNC traffic.