On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:05 -0800, Phlip wrote: > On Feb 3, 3:10 am, Vladimir Ignatov <kmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Finally I develop a feeling that strong instrumentation / tools can > > bring us the best of two worlds. That I am dreaming on is an absolute > > new type/class of IDE suitable for Python and potentially for other > > dynamic-type languages. Instead of current text-oriented IDEs, it > > should be a database-centric and resemble current CAD systems instead > > of being just "fancy text editor". Source text should be an output > > product of that CAD and not a "source material" itself. > That's fine so long as I can also treat the source as source, at need. > You may have just reinvented Smalltalk's Squeak editor (reputedly the > testbed for all of modern GUIs...). > Current editors suck because they can't see into the code and browse > it - unless it's so statically typed it's painful.
? I edit Python in MonoDevelop 2.2; and I can browse my file, classes, etc... So I don't know what you mean by "can't see into the code". It works pretty well. Of course it can't tell that I've set x = {an integer}, as that only happens at runtime. > That's why I wrote this: > http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/dynamic_languages_vs_editors.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list