In Delphi, the editor is based around a 'unit' (form/record/class), as in Microsoft products. The IDE is 'somewhat' reminiscent of the default settimgs for Visual Studio 3 with discrete windows on the desktop for properties, code, tool pallete etc. Kind of a similar arrangement to Cincom, but not nearly so sophisticated.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Watkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 December 2004 21:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XP] Bowling for Smalltalk 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. -- "Software is too expensive to build cheaply" Robert Watkins http://twasink.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
