From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-04-16T04:07:55+09:00
Subject: Re: IDEs, syntactic vs. semantic highlighting, etc.

Chad Perrin wrote:
> 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:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 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.
>
>   
A wise decision ... it's addicting. :)

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