>That's fast food thinking

You're simply drawing the line where it suits you.

I don't consider it pure human coding if you use anything but Notepad.

What about punch cards?

Real programmers write the code and throw it away after compilation. All the fixes happen in the binary. You are not a real programmer unless you debug hex dumps and add changes directly to the compiled program.

Text editor? No. You punch the program on cards and then wait 1 week to get your turn and get a compiler error.