[plt-scheme] saved window configurations

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Wed Sep 26 20:28:17 EDT 2007

On 9/26/07, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> DrScheme is an IDE. It has more tools (of a certain kind) than any
> other IDE out there. (It doesn't have certain things that those other
> IDEs all have, tho. Refactoring tools for example.)

Totally understood. I love DrScheme.

> The difference is that we made a conscious design choice to push a lot
> of that information into the program. For example, the entire notion
> of projects as external to the language is bogus for us.

That is important!!! Where is this written down?

> Just
> specifying the main file of your program is enough to define the
> "project". Witness the module browser for example.

My observation, then, is more about not understanding DrScheme's
notion of a project.


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