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Article #6317Language Design
From: wsmith
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 04:57
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1989 04:57
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Should the language designers be making work for the language-oriented editor designers or should the language-oriented editor designers be making work for the language designers? I believe it should be the latter. The language oriented-editor designers should provide a technology base that may be taken as given by the language designer who may then design languages without ugly lexical or syntactic structures that make it impossible for the compiler to give sensible error messages. (For example, in the language I'm learning now, C++, if you forget to declare a class, it is a *syntax* error. Not misuse of identifier or undefined class, *syntax* error.) (Define language-oriented editor to by the hypertext object-oriented WYSIWYG formating editor or equivalent that you wish *you'd* written.) Bill Smith wsmith@cs.uiuc.edu uiucdcs!wsmith
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