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Haha, only yesterday I mentioned Interlisp sedit on HN. Welcome to the world of the 1970s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor http://en.wikipedia.org
by sedachv 16y ago
Haha, only yesterday I mentioned Interlisp sedit on HN. Welcome to the world of the 1970s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_editor
There's a reason these things weren't all that popular.
- sedachv 16y agoOh boy, and who could forget DWIM. I'm sure if the concept of refactoring existed back then (it didn't; apparently L Peter Deutsch would just throw out your code and start again if he didn't like it) there would be some really cool tools for that too.
- sedachv 16y agoClassic: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o4niyIQ6_O8J:www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Teitelman-FCJJ1972.pdf+programmers+assistant&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShJgKd9Srkt1d1ks_l5JJIQe7Hf4KtT_GVHoHPhmL3MShAYgqrRCr1t1WXoOhg2wa65I7aN244UFvbWAhvJL2IKv0lVTEjSCNGKhWoPVxvniC-gc3go5S7uduKgcMNQrFSGvxYH&sig=AHIEtbT8xcDYio5z9BYceJ7o0c5FXsds4A http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o4niyIQ6_O8J:w... For all the hating, automating programming is an obvious thing to do (the idea is both trivial and quite profound: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645338 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645338), and there are some really cool ideas there (reversible debugging being one).
- acqq 16y agoOr the tools that were supposed to "just draw" OO programs, nineties. There's a reason these things nobody uses today.