Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2023-03-18 16:06:49 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 18/03/2023 12:15, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > >> I think you might be meaning TurboPascal, Delphi's forerunner. It just > >> had a compiler and text editor. > > > > I'd still classify Turbo Pascal as an IDE. It wasn't a standalone > > compiler you

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Alan Gauld
On 18/03/2023 12:15, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> I think you might be meaning TurboPascal, Delphi's forerunner. It just >> had a compiler and text editor. > > I'd still classify Turbo Pascal as an IDE. It wasn't a standalone > compiler you would invoke on source files you wrote with some other It

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Roel Schroeven
Peter J. Holzer schreef op 18/03/2023 om 13:15: On 2023-03-18 08:46:42 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: > >> I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within > >> their own IDEs and I used their features extensively. > > > > Back when

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Thomas Passin
On 3/18/2023 8:15 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: On 2023-03-18 08:46:42 +, Alan Gauld wrote: On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within their own IDEs and I used their features extensively. Back when Delphi first came out,

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Thomas Passin
On 3/18/2023 4:46 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within their own IDEs and I used their features extensively. Back when Delphi first came out, when I first used it, I don't remember any IDE; one j

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2023-03-18 08:46:42 +, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: > >> I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within > >> their own IDEs and I used their features extensively. > > > > Back when Delphi first came out, when I first used it, I don't

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-18 Thread Alan Gauld
On 17/03/2023 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: >> I used Delphi and Smalltalk/V which both pretty much only exist within >> their own IDEs and I used their features extensively. > > Back when Delphi first came out, when I first used it, I don't remember > any IDE; one just used a text editor. I thin

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-17 Thread MRAB
On 2023-03-17 17:55, Thomas Passin wrote: On 3/17/2023 1:13 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: Oops! I meant to send this to the group not just Dave. Forwarded Message On 16/03/2023 22:55, dn via Python-list wrote: Do you make use of your IDE's expansionist tendencies, and if-so, which

Re: Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-17 Thread Thomas Passin
On 3/17/2023 1:13 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: Oops! I meant to send this to the group not just Dave. Forwarded Message On 16/03/2023 22:55, dn via Python-list wrote: Do you make use of your IDE's expansionist tendencies, and if-so, which ones? When I'm writing Java/C++/C# yes,

Fwd: Friday finking: IDE 'macro expansions'

2023-03-17 Thread Alan Gauld
Oops! I meant to send this to the group not just Dave. Forwarded Message On 16/03/2023 22:55, dn via Python-list wrote: > Do you make use of your IDE's expansionist tendencies, and if-so, which > ones? When I'm writing Java/C++/C# yes, I need all the IDE help I can get. Netb