From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T02:33:59+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEs, syntactic vs. semantic highlighting, etc.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:48:59AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Tim X wrote:
> >
> >There have been some lisp dialects that combined the IDE with the language
> >similar to what smalltalk does. 
> >  
> Dr. Scheme comes to mind ... an IDE *and* a language tutorial. And for 
> Forth, there's the non-free and Windows-ia32-only SwiftForth package 
> from Forth, Inc. It's not as tutorial as Dr. Scheme, but it does come 
> with an excellent tutorial in PDF.

I've seen Dr. Scheme, and it's a really nice idea.  One of these days,
I'll actually spend some quality time with it.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"A script is what you give the actors.  A program
is what you give the audience." - Larry Wall