On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Grant Rettke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grettke@acm.org" target="_blank">grettke@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> You are an accomplished programmer that got this far without online<br> compilation that was added this year?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, I don't know about others, but prior to that becoming available, I would often have to keep hitting the "Check syntax" button or key command manually. Online compilation is just DrRacket continuously running "Check Syntax" for you so you don't have to manually do that - and it *is* very convenient and smoothes out the development process, reducing a distraction that is otherwise present. Other industrial-strength IDEs (e.g. Eclipse, MS VS, IBM's Java Visual-something- I forget the name) all provide this feature of continuous background syntax analysis to enable various types of refactorings and code navigation. Another nice thing about online compilation is the additional feature of being able to view snippets of function signatures (i.e. help) right in the corner of the editor.</div> <div><br></div><div>--- nadeem</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I really want to understand what I am missing please help me<br> understand based on the target-user I described.<br> <br> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM, John Clements<br> <<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>> wrote:<br> <div class="im">><br> > On Nov 21, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Ray Racine wrote:<br> ><br> >> Different strokes and folks and all that, but I find the online compilation to be killer feature of DrR.<br> ><br> </div>> +1. In my mind, this is the almost-irrefutable advantage of DrR over <your favorite editor>. It kills me not having it in student languages; I feel like I'm flying blind.<br> ><br> > John<br> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">><br> ><br> > ____________________<br> > Racket Users list:<br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> --<br> Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE<br> <a href="mailto:grettke@acm.org">grettke@acm.org</a> | <a href="http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/</a><br> Wisdom begins in wonder.<br> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))<br> <br> ____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>