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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: What's a PC? (What's the best environment)
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Date: 3 Nov 88 20:57:06 GMT
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In article <TOM.88Oct25170554@chionia.amara.uucp> tom@chionia.amara.uucp (Tom Doehne) writes:
>
>In article <396@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes:
>>In article <197@ai.etl.army.mil> mike@ai.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell) writes:
>>
>>>The best software development environment on the planet earth is a lisp
>>>machine.  This is a "PC" in the generic sense.  It is the quality of the
>>>supporting environment that makes this so.  Those of us who know and
>...regrets deleted...
>
>>     Do other people in this group feel this way as well? 

N.B., most if not all of the advantages of an integrated LISP 
environment cited in the above articles are also present in
Smalltalk. Not only that, but Smalltalk runs on many different
and standard machines (Suns, Macs, ...) without change to ANY
conde (object compatible). It also supplies real structure
for your data, instead of forcing everything to look like a list.
Since everything is accessable to your code, even things like the
debugger (allowing everything cited above, including evaluation
of subexpressions, code correction and restart, ...) are all written
in Smalltalk without needing anything special in the interpreter.
Check this out before claiming LISP as the "best". I would say
"one of the best" myself.
                      - Darren New