Living happily together
Karl Ramberg
karl.ramberg at chello.se
Tue Jul 10 19:13:11 UTC 2001
Lex Spoon wrote:
>
> "Jim Benson" <jb at speed.net> wrote:
> > Lex,
> > In some sense, I get the feeling that I need (at the very least) a coding
> > equivalent to a word processor. A word processor checks for spelling and
> > grammatical mistakes, so should my development tools but in a different
> > context. It has to compile it of course, but it should also do lint checking
> > and make sure I don't make the 10 stupid Smalltalk mistakes. Ideally it
> > would know other thing too. Like when I've made algorithmic errors ( On2 vs
> > On for example ) , knows of a better algorithm than the one I'm using, or
> > has a better 'pattern' for some spot of code, but obviously all that's
> > somewhere down the road.
>
> Of course, this isn't just UI changes -- there is significant
> technology required to find an error in an algorithm!
The MethodFinder finds algorithms allready in the image. Could be fun to
integrate that ability into a code pane, to write what you want as
a result instead of how to get it.
Karl
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