Actually, Eclipse was a port of the "Visual Age" family of IDEs which started out implemented in Smalltalk. Smalltalk started out as something like Lisp, withou

Actually, Eclipse was a port of the "Visual Age" family of IDEs which started out implemented in Smalltalk. Smalltalk started out as something like Lisp, without the insanity of coding in your data representation. (Unfortunately, it means you don't have the insanely great benefits of coding in your data representation.) Emacs was actually a great way to do work over a slow modem connection back in the late 90's.