On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:37, Bryan Sant wrote: > On 2/13/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Advanced IDEs these days are only an incremental improvement over IDE > > technology that existed for years in the advanced Smalltalk and Lisp > > environments of 15-20 years ago. Granted, those environments were > > Woooooo. The IDE features that exist today in Eclipse and IntelliJ > are far more advanced than the IDE's of yesteryear. If you're > thinking, "Hey, I've used Microsoft Visual Studio. I know what IDE's > have to offer." You are dead wrong. Likewise if you've used Borland > Turbo C++ or the like. There is no comparison between prior IDEs and > the modern Java IDEs. > > I suppose you could say that IDE improvements have been only > incremental, and I'd say that language features in modern languages > have been only incremental.
I think Levi is referring to the power of REPL and all correlated goodness. REPL in your OS? Wish we could get back to that. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
