Looking for suggestions in editing FPro files

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>When asked his whereabouts on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 11:22:39AM -0400,
>Boaz Bezborodko took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>> While I don't mind working in the regular screen most of the time, I was 
>> wondering if anyone has an alternate way of editing FPro programs that 
>> allows you to see a lot more lines at a time without having to 
>> constantly print out a hardcopy or an unformatted ASCII version in a 
>> text editor?
>
>How much would you pay for a cross-platform GUI editor that had labels in
>the first cells, If/Then tags in the second cells, and the third cells were
>editable conditional and action lines.  Think of a mini-Excel type program,
>but as an editor for fP code.

Once upon a time, Lennie Rosenberg and I were working on a
translater that would allow one to write in a higher level
language similar to python, perl, or C, and generate FilePro
processing tables.  Lennie's untimely death, and my schedule
ended this though.

This would make a nice project for an introduction to compiler
writing course.

Bill
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