> > So you've been looking at Eiffel then? > > :-) > > I don't get this joke, but it sounds like the basis for it > would be interesting. Can you explain?
Bertrand Meyer, the inventor of Eiffel uses rich text to display code in his books. The commercial Eiffel IDE that his company ISE sells used to display the code the same way. Thus different fonts were used for comments, keywords etc as well as the usual syntax colouring. I note that the freeware version of the tool seems to be more conventional in approach! The best way to see what I mean is probably to visit http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/oosc/acrobat.html and view the pdf files. Unlike most programming books the code is not in a fixed space font and the original ISE IDE copied the books style... As an aside Meyer's book Object Oriented Software Construction is huge (1200+ pages) but is also one of the very best books on OOP anywhere. (Even is all the code is in Eiffel!) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
