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By IDE, do you mean Color Forth? Are you using Color Forth? If that's totally wrong, could you talk more about the IDE anyway?


Yes, I'm using Color Forth. It's not the best part of the package...it took a really long time to learn, and I had to learn its keyboard layout to do so. My philosophy, in general, is, "do whatever you want, but don't change my editor or keyboard." After all, I spent several weeks being unable to type because I was learning Dvorak, years ago. And emacs had a steep learning curve too.

The UI, I have to say, would not pass Apple's muster. It is a completely different way of programming, and I preferred to program on paper for the longest time rather than learn all the weird controls.




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