Re: Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.

[Paul Wallich <pw@panix.com>]

In article <egd6k4dpn2.fsf@sefirot.ii.uib.no>,
 "Ketil Malde" <ketil+@ii.uib.no> wrote:

> asimon@math.bme.hu (Simon András) writes:
> 
> > Andrew Reilly <andrew@gurney.reilly.home> writes:
> 
> >> I clearly don't understand some subtle advantage of this Genera
> >> system. In what sense is it /different/ from emacs?  Is it just the
> >> dialect of lisp involved that's at question?
> 
> > http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/genera/gen
> > era.html
> 
> Is there a version of this document that is updated a bit?  I mean,
> we know about garbage collection these days.  Clicking on director names
> to see what's inside is also not too new.  

On the other hand, clicking on a function name to see and potentially 
edit its definition, find the names of all the other functions that call 
it, and inspect (and potentially edit) the stack frames of all currently 
running invocatons of that function is kinda cool. Especially when it's 
just a single mouse click to find the function/variable/whatever behind 
any object or piece of text on the screen. 

In my (very very very) limited experience the integration of language, 
OS and IDE provides significant advantages over even most modern Lisp 
IDEs on conventional OS's because you don't suddenly run into some 
opaque block of code or binary data when you're following the path of 
how something works (or doesn't).

paul