[plt-dev] Re: renaming programs in the distribution

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 21 10:22:33 EDT 2010

On Wednesday, April 21, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>
> The various GUI tools that we have are generally found in drscheme's
> UI (check syntax etc) or as libraries in a program run in drs
> (slideshow).
>
>
>
> I am imagining tools that are independent from drscheme for a moment.
> Consider sirmail and just imagine for a moment that it was the best
> email client ever. What I'd like then is (min) a gui 'thing' that
> offers three buttons:
>
>   +----------+-------+---------+
>   | drscheme | games | sirmail |
>   +----------+-------+---------+
>
> I would personally plug in my scripts for maintaining my accounts,
> my stocks, etc.
>

I experimented with something like this in '97 or so and eventually
concluded that the finder / explorer was way better.

Robby


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