A revolutionary OS/Programming Idea

[Matthew Danish]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:02:05PM -0700, John Newman wrote:
> See, that's the problem I am talking about--I have no
> frickin idea what any of that means.  Defun? 
> Interactive?  Find-file? Setq?
> 
> However, if I could right click on the defun object
> and peer into the source code that makes it up, I
> might be able to figure it out--and maybe use it more
> proficiently--you know what I mean?

Well, you can do this and more in a real Lisp (or Smalltalk, or some
others) IDE, and they do exist (and are a lot more fun to code in than
any C++ IDE).

So start studying/playing with prior art.

I already recommended Squeak, and all the Common Lisp vendors on win32
offer some sort of personal trial edition (Xanalys, Franz, Corman), and
Cincom has a non-commercial version of VisualWorks too.

http://cliki.tunes.org/Smalltalk
http://cliki.tunes.org/Common%20Lisp

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