home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!sas52992
- From: sas52992@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjay Ashok Sheth)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: PC Scheme/Geneva release 4 available !
- Message-ID: <Bx8HAw.Drv@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 08:08:54 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.161615.1@uni2a.unige.ch> <MARKF.92Oct30124010@montreux.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov4.110057.1@uni2a.unige.ch>
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Lines: 46
-
- In comp.lang.scheme you write:
-
- >In article <MARKF.92Oct30124010@montreux.ai.mit.edu>, markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Mark Friedman) writes:
- >> Do you guys have any plans to make a Windows version of PC
- >> Scheme/Geneva. In particular, a Scheme that could create and call out
- >> to DDL's would be extroadinarily valuable to people who want to do
- >> Windows software development using Scheme.
- >>
- >> -Mark
- >> --
- >>
- >> Mark Friedman
- >> 42 Wyatt St.
- >> Somerville, Ma. 02143
- >>
- >> markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu
- >Well, no, up to now... We always thought of PCS as a PC-oriented program,
- >and never gave a thought to splitting PCS in many different versions.
- >If your idea receives some support, maybe we could give it a chance.
- >For me the main obstacle is Windows implies 'click click click' which
- >is not a suitable user interface for a language like PCS.
- >Please followup, Windoze users...
-
- One possibility may be an interface similar to one present in Schematik for the
- NeXT operating system. The main features are that it is possible to have
- multiple windows open at the same time - for example, one for the kernel/
- interpreter and one for the editor. In Schematik, they also replace Edwin with
- an editor in which you can use the mouse to move around the source code of
- your program and highlight text to cut/copy/paste. This is a very useful
- function that is much harder to do in a character based editor like Edwin.
-
- Another feature that would be useful would be that you could use the Windows
- help interface to possibly provide some help or description for all the
- commands. (i.e. for the let construct, you could have a little window where
- the syntax of the command is explained as well as possibly an example of it
- in use -- mainly the same kind of thing as the MIT Scheme manual.)
-
- If you want more ideas, take a look at Schematik or even some other integrated
- debugger like the ones out for C, Pascal, etc. by Borland.
-
-
- --
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Sanjay Sheth Research is what I'm doing when
- diskhawk@uiuc.edu I don't know what I'm doing.
- sas52992@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NexT Mail only) --- Werner Von Braun
-