Falling in love with D, but...

[Bill Baxter]

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> David B. Held wrote:
>  >...
>> Perhaps it is something of a pipe dream to imagine that Eclipse could 
>> be taken to this level, but I think it would be a fantastic 
>> progression in tool evolution if this were to happen.  The problem is 
>> that this kind of IDE is so fundamentally different from your average 
>> text editor that there may be nothing to leverage.  Anyway, if anyone 
>> is interested in working on something like this, I would definitely 
>> try to make some time available to help out.
>>
>> Dave
> 
> I'm very interested!
> I even started a SF project for it quite some time ago, 
> http://sf.net/projects/tood, but I only have ideas at the moment, no 
> code :(
> 
> L.

Isn't that kind of what Smalltalk was supposed to be?  I don't know 
about the graphical representations of functions part, but at least the 
main editing required a "SmallTalk Browser" which was basically just a 
hierarchical explorer for all your bits of code.

I never used SmallTalk though... just read about it, so maybe it's 
nothing like what you guys are talking about.  I was thinking about 
taking the time to learn it back when the Disney research folks were 
doing interesting things with Squeak, but then they decided to move to 
Python. :-)

--bb