[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run requirement

[Guido van Rossum]

> So what I would propose is a Scintilla-based (for lack of a
> better alternative) IDE that is cross-platform (to the extent possible, but
> at least Win and Linux and, hopefully, Mac), interactive, easy, helpful and
> part of the standard distribution. I could help manage the process, but I'm
> not up to the challenge of doing all the code.

IDLE has most of the functionality (not code folding).

Why start over when there's probably a person-year of work in IDLE?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)