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So you wouldn't consider Smalltalk, Mesa or a lisp machine to be an IDE?
by mhd 15y ago
So you wouldn't consider Smalltalk, Mesa or a lisp machine to be an IDE?
- ajross 15y agoSure they are, but they were't marketed using the term "IDE". That acronym appeared AFAIK in the late 1980's in the IBM PC world, and it was used to distinguish those software products from the unix-like MS tools.
- lispm 15y ago1983 > Symbolics 36000 Technical Summary > Overview > ... > The Symbolics 3600 is a 36-bit single-user computer designed for high-productivity software development and for the execution of large symbolic programs. ... > The system software constitutes a large-scale programming environment ... Object-oriented programming techniques are used throughout the 3600 system to provide a reliable and extensible integrated environment without the usual division between an operating system and programming languages ... --- There you have 'development' and ' extensible integrated environment'.