> From: Mike <erazmus@WANTREE.COM.AU>
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: compiler wish list
> Date: Wednesday, 25 June 1997 02:52
>
> At 08:34 AM 6/24/97 +0200, you wrote:
> >I think this should rather be on the MPLAB wishlist, but
> >something that will really make my day would be lines that
> >connect the { and the } brackets. For instance :
> >
> >        for (index1=0;index1<10;index1++)
> >        -----   {
> >        |       for (index2=0;index2<10;index2++)
> >        |  --           {
> >        |  |            blah blah
> >        |  |            blah balh blah
> >        |  --           }
> >        |       blah
> >        |       blah
> >        -----   }
> >
> >It sounds stupid, but it is ideal to trap stupid errors :)
>
> Actually thats an interesting suggestion - given the state of IDE's
> and GUI's such a step with several embellishments could be a great
> program writing, documentation and debugging tool. In fact a very
> logical extension to the way things are done at the moment !
>
> Several AI techniques could also be 'lumped in' with on screen
> 'pre-assmebly' to keep track of programming constructs as REALLY
> USEFUL tools for very speedy source data entry - towards the
> day when source entry and programming as such would be as easy as
> asking the typist if she knew how to use a word processor !
>
> We could have Program Processors instead of Word Processors with
> editing cut, copy and paste over constructs and hooks built in
> to avoid those common programming mistakes they taught us
> in PASCAL to avoid etc...
>
> Definitely food for thought - wish I had thought of it - hang on
> let me work on that parallel universe sliding and I can have my wish ;)
>

I already made a comment about the VC environment, but how about using a wp
with programmable extensions to do what your suggesting? Word with VB 4
Apps comes to mind, but there are plenty of others - TextPad, by Helios;
etc

MikeS
<mikesmith_oz@relaymail.net>