From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T03:23:55+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEs, syntactic vs. semantic highlighting, etc.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:18:12AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >  
> SwiftForth is a lot more fun. :)

Forth is a little further down my list of languages right now.  Maybe
some day.

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