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Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by pjmlp on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:01AM (#13712778)
I agree with you, just I don't get " powershell resembles more smalltalk than lisp." part.

While FOSS Lisp environments are pretty bare bones text CLIs, that is not how Lisp should like since Xerox PARC, TI and Genera days.

Sadly Lisp IDEs are all commercial, but the experience is pretty much Smalltalk like, or even better, given that they also AOT to native code.

Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by terminalcommand on Thursday February 23, 2017 @12:15PM (#13715606)
I was never aware of the existence of a Lisp implementation with an IDE.

Now I see that there is. The two lisp books I read (Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp and gigamonkey - Practical commmon lisp) always used text editors.

Whereas for smalltalk I installed a VM (scratch) that included a GUI.

And also even in an old issue(80s?) of Byte magazine dedicated to smalltalk there were extensive toolings with GUI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7052479

"By resembling smalltalk" I wanted to mean that the user needs to interact with a development environment to get the full benefits of powershell. And that this is in its nature.

Nevertheless, I stand corrected. I never knew that there were lisp implementations designed to work with an IDE.

Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by pjmlp on Thursday February 23, 2017 @12:58PM (#13716040)
You never heard of Lisp Machines or Mac Common Lisp?

Lisp stop being based on text mode environments in the late 70's, when it moved out of mainframes into systems with graphical displays.

Many of the Smalltalk ideas were inspired from Interlisp-D, the Lisp workstations used at Xerox PARC.

Text mode environments for Lisp is a GNU/Linux thing.

If you wish I can provide some links.

Re:Python support in Visual Studio 2017 by terminalcommand on Friday February 24, 2017 @08:18AM (#13723350)
I had heard of lisp machines as a term, but none of the others mentioned in your comment.

Thanks for pointing out, I'll do some research on this topic.

If you have links easily accesible to you, I'd appreciate them, if not no problem at all.