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
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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