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Given that Visual Studio underlines all your compilation errors and lists them in the Error List as you write your code, I don't see how this would work.

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It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.

I gather GHC actually used to do more-or-less this[1] (delete your source if you had type errors). Now that's a way to build discipline :)

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kmk6q/the_best_ghc_...

Wouldn't that be more aptly named 'Nightmare mode?'

I found "Hardcore" more appropriate; reminds me of Diablo 2's Hardcore mode where your character can't be recovered after any single death. "Nightmare" takes me back to Doom where it was just a harder mode, without the extra "permanent death" rule.

Sorry, that's my pedantry out of the way for the morning :)

Or perhaps the slightly longer "Better Get It Right The First Time" mode?

Commodore mode.

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