Hehe, you are telling my hearts content. I think something along those lines need to be thwapped into the face of every designer and implementer of a new langua

Hehe, you are telling my hearts content. I think something along those lines need to be thwapped into the face of every designer and implementer of a new language: - do not take away my vim for your puny IDE. I rather won't try your language than learn a new editor - have a reasonable compiler out there which follows the guidelines to a compiler/interpreter interface on the command line: either "myLanguageCompiler program; ./program" or "myLanguageInterpreter program". - get this reasonable standard compiler into the major linux repositories Basically, all of these boil down to a single important point: Lower the entry barrier to your language considerabely, even to a point where things are just reasonable and not great for the new programmer. Certainly, vim might not be good for editing (say) Lisp, and the standard compiler called (say) lisp or lispc might not be fast and efficient for everything, but I don't care about that if I just want to spend an evening toying around with the language.