[pro] smart editors [was The Best Examples of "Code is Data"]

[Daniel Weinreb]

dherring at tentpost.com wrote:
> LW wrote
>
> IIRC, the Dr. Scheme editor had such features back in 1999. 

I have long felt that it's a shame that the Common
Lisp community and the Scheme community are
so badly splt.  I strongly suspect that Common
Lisp has a lot to learn from DrScheme.

>  They can be
> very useful on occasion; but the need to interact with them can be a
> hindrance.  Also annoying is when the act of refactoring code breaks the
> tools used to simplify the process.
>
> At ILC09, Duane Rettig outlined a smart debugger that could step all the
> way from source through macros down to compiled code.  A similar framework
> may be needed to expose the IT in an anaphoric macro.
>   
Very interesting.  It sure would be nice if all that good
work being done at Franz were open source.  (I do
understand why it's not.)

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