So you've been looking at Eiffel then? :-)
I don't get this joke, but it sounds like the basis for it would be interesting. Can you explain?
Bertrand Meyer, the inventor of Eiffel uses rich text to display
code in his books. The commercial Eiffel IDE that his company ISE sells used to display the code the same way. Thus different fonts were used for comments, keywords etc as well as the usual syntax colouring. I note that the freeware version of the tool seems to be more conventional in approach!
<SNIP>
Alan G.
[Alan posted the Eiffel reference in response to my 'suggestion' we switch to MS Word format for writing code.]
Thanks for explaining that, Alan. I'd heard of Eiffel, but that was as far as that went. (I was just going for maximally silly with the Word suggestion.)
I am a bit surprised by your description and links. I like scite a lot, but the first time I fired it up and saw my code in a non-monospace font, I just about recoiled in horror. Once I figured out how to switch that, I felt much better, as my lack of previous programming experience meant I didn't have a recoil in horror over Python's use of whitespace. I'd felt left out ;-)
Best to all,
Brian vdB
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
