[squeak-dev] Emacs as a conceptual entry point to Smalltalk

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sat Aug 15 21:18:26 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:03:39PM -0700, Ronald Spengler wrote:
> 
> I have a question for the more experienced folks on the list: Is Smalltalk
> as well suited to the task of editing/refactoring/beautifying code in
> arbitrary languages as Lisp? I thought there was an IDE like that written in
> Smalltalk once, I could've sworn I'd read about something like that well
> before I knew what Smalltalk was. Might I implement the next fantastic
> general purpose IDE in Squeak with the same ease?

IBM's VisualAge IDE is/was done in Smalltalk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge

Dave




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