On Dec 26, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Doug Swartz wrote:
> This difference predates the cool recent additions such as
> Intellisense, and dates back to when C++ and Smalltalk were
> the dominant OO languages.
>
> For whatever reason none of the other languages have ever
> developed the "multiple window" IDE approach.
Actually, in the Macintosh world most IDEs only supported multiple
source windows for most of the platform's history. And most Macintosh
software was developed in C++, not Smalltalk.
The Macintosh also doesn't use the MDI paradigm -- that's probably the
big differentiator when it comes to how IDEs will be constructed.
Smalltalk may have been running on a platform with MDI for a long time,
but it certainly wasn't created on one and the culture may never have
embraced it. Windows IDEs and Java IDEs (running predominantly on
Windows) were though.
-- Chris
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