Am 23.05.2007 um 00:20 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
I don't suppose you're familiar with the Dylan programming
language, or more to the point, have looked at the IDE that Apple
included in their original implementation of the language (around
1993 or so)? Characteristic of Apple of that time, the UI was both
highly innovative and a joy to use. It was based around "browsers",
where each browser had a "subject" (such as a project, module,
definition etc.) and an "aspect" (such as "contents of", "errors
in", "references to", "direct methods of" etc.). Browsers could be
linked so that the selection in one browser became the subject in
another. This made it very easy to navigate your project.
All code was stored in a database rather than as text files, and
individual code definitions were separate objects in the browsers
rather than pieces of text in a big file.
Info w/ screenshots: <http://osteele.com/museum/apple-dylan>
<http://wiki.opendylan.org/wiki/view.dsp?title=Apple%20Dylan>
Needless to say, this goes in rather the opposite UI direction to
the "Ctrl-M Ctrl-Meta-Z <esc> :edit qx" approach to editors that
some people prefer.
Dylan's not a bad language, and there are open source
implementations available for Gnu/Linux. But if you want to check
out Apple's IDE, you'll really need a 68K Mac, as the PPC version
is very buggy and I don't think the 68K version will run in PPC.
Michael's blog:
http://snakeratpig.blogspot.com/2007/02/road-to-haskell.html
Dylan and Haskell are very similar in the multiple-dispatch (a
haskeller would call that
pattern matching on several arguments) respect.
Cheers,
Gabor
PS: Btw, the Apple Dylan IDE works well on PPC if you apply a patch
that was issued by
Digitool shortly after the initial port of the IDE to PPC.
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