From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T03:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- Get Ready for the Proposal Window

On 3/14/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Scite is a bit like that, at least the version shipped with the Windows
> One-Click Installer. A DrRuby would be spectacular, though!

Scite misses out what I consider the core, practically raison d'etre
feature - the ability to click a button and start a clean IRB session
which autoloads the program you're typing into the editor. Let's say,
for instance, that I'm developing some complicated mathematical
algorithm. I can get a bit of it right, click "reload", play about for
a while in IRB using the functions I've already defined, till I nail
the next function, then add it to the program and hit 'reload' again.
This was my favourite DrScheme feature. I think QBasic also allowed
this to a certain extent, though I could be misremembering (that was a
very underappreciated IDE, though).

martin