Ask HN: what are some dynamic programming environments other than emacs?
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1- unix of course. The simple fact of compiling and linking a program, or writing a script, changes the unix environment since you can then on use it as a new command.
2- MPW, the Macintosh Programmer Workshop, which was influenced by the unix design and also by emacs did let you write new commands, and install them under menus.
3- any application with some kind of scriptability feature where you can add new scripts that you can use as new command would fit the bill.
2- MPW, the Macintosh Programmer Workshop, which was influenced by the unix design and also by emacs did let you write new commands, and install them under menus.
3- any application with some kind of scriptability feature where you can add new scripts that you can use as new command would fit the bill.
There is Pharo: http://www.pharo-project.org/
But it is more an IDE, not a general UI for work like Emacs. (But it could for sure be turned into one)
But it is more an IDE, not a general UI for work like Emacs. (But it could for sure be turned into one)
I'm not sure these qualify as solutions that your are looking for, but they are very interesting, fun, and useful.
1) Squeak Smalltalk
2) IPython
By environment I mean something with a UI and some kind of access to the local system.
I'm looking for an alternative dynamic environment to live in during work.