Gary Feldman wrote:
> Finally, what I'd really like to try is an IDE that breaks away from the
> file-based model, so that windows are either coupled to classes or
> individual methods. I believe there was some research along these
> lines at Brown back in the eighties, but I haven't seen anything
> commercial. Does the Smalltalk environment support that? Anyone know
> whether Delphi does? (I've never used Delphi but have heard good things
> about it.)
The atomic unit of editing (and versioning) in IBM's Visual Age for Java
was the method. They only introduced a class view in the final version, in
the face of overwhelming demand.
There's a plugin for Eclipse to do something similar to the editor.
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