Hello Gerry > Hello All, > > > I've been thinking about the idea of an alternate IDE quite a bit. What I'm > envisioning would be something akin to the Delphi IDE. Delphi is probably the > most productive gui based environment I've ever worked in. It would be very > interesting to combine Smalltalk with such an environment. My feeling about > the current IDE is that it is somewhat dated.
+ 1000000 > It was designed at a time when monitors were the size of port holes. I think > an updated environment would go a long way to making the language more > interesting and accessible. The difficult part about Smalltalk certainly > isn't the language, it's the strange IDE layout. If that barrier were to be > removed, then a person could really hit the ground running. The only real > difference I would see between the old and the new would be the code editor. > The rest would just be a little rearranging of what is already there. I'm > slowly talking my self > into actually starting down the road a bit. I think I'll try to find a few > days that I can spend doing some investigating. > > Any thoughts? Brainstorm using glamour to prototype something. We definitively need innovation and rethink how we work. I can tell you that what we have is not what I dream of. Stef > > > Thanks, > Gerry > > > > > > >
