From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-12-31T18:47:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29831] Re: FXRuby FreeRIDE Spike uploaded.

----- Original Message -----
From: Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:50 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:29826] Re: FXRuby FreeRIDE Spike uploaded.


> I agree with this as well. I believe that editing responsiveness is
crucial.
> You can implement a world of wonderful features, but poor responsiveness
can
> make it all but unusable.
>
> I certainly would be willing to buy the idea that basic editing could be
> responsive in pure Ruby. But by the time you get to the higher level
> functions that require real-time parsing and reparsing of incomplete code,
I
> would be worried that things could slow down considerably.

Not to wander off-topic, but if we do implement remote
pair programming, this is a performance concern also.

We've all seen unresponsive telnet sessions. They're
not fun.

Hal Fulton