Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!udel!princeton!siemens!steve From: steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: environments Message-ID: <338@siemens.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 13:52:07 GMT References: <5056@sol.ARPA> Reply-To: steve@siemens.UUCP (Steve Clark) Organization: Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ Lines: 22 In article <5056@sol.ARPA> miller@cs.rochester.edu writes: >A side issue on the text file: it allows a user-specifiable grouping on >which functions are to be viewed togeter, i.e. that constitute some semantic >chunk. I do that all the time in Interlisp-D, although more often I put each chunk into a separate, small file. >As an example that may prove this: consider trying to get a Dmachine to >grock WEB (Knuth's language). sorry, I don't know WEB and I don't have time to learn it. >Personal prejudice: back in the days when I used franz under unix, I hated >the structure editor. I cannot comprehend using a tty-based structure editor. If I have to do Lisp from a tty, I will use Emacs. >Brad Miller >University of Rochester Computer Science Department >miller@cs.rochester.edu >allegra!rochester!miller Steve Clark, princeton!siemens!steve, steve@siemens.com