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From: lynx <rinkasu@kaze.void.null>
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Subject: Re: blocks and screens, tell your war stories
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 07:42:56 +0000 (UTC)
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In <54c682f0$0$6861$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl> albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) writes:

>In article <ma47pq$dho$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>lynx  <rinkasu@kaze.void.null> wrote:
>>I think this what I really appreciate about colorForth & ArrayForth--the
>>tight working relationship between the editor and compiler.  As you
>>point out, this integration can be taken even further.

>Yeah, it looks just like Eclipse. About equally useful.

Appearance aside, cF/AF are extremely well considered interfaces for the
environments they were designed for.  There are ideas here that even
"useful" (by your definition) language environments could safely employ
in their own designs with quite a few benefits.

Eclipse, OTOH, is a lumbering disaster conjured by marketing types and
pitched as Everyone's IDE.  I agree that Eclipse is not useful.