From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-14T18:13:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- Get Ready for the Proposal Window

On 3/14/07, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you're not a student, but have a great idea, feel free to toss it
> out for discussion. Who knows, maybe someone will pick it up and run
> with it.

It would be really neat to combine scintilla and irb to get a
lightweight drscheme-like environment optimised for iterative,
interactive development. It would need the following features:

1. A mathematica-like wrapper around irb, where each command/response
is an individual gui object, so that it would be easy to select
individual lines from the history (not essential, but it'd make the
gui more convenient to use)
2. The ability to copy an irb line to the scintilla pane
3. The ability to wipe the irb session and reload it from the
scintilla pane (this is the main requirement)
4. (optional) An SDL pane that was specialcased into irb, so that
people learning ruby could play around with graphics right from the
start (remembering my BBC Basic days)

Another option is to write a DrRuby atop the DrScheme engine
(someone's done a DrOcaml, for instance), but that's probably a lot
harder.

martin