[neilv]

BTW, there's a small small-world coincidence, between a desire for an Emacs-based super IDE, and the original article...

The desire for an Emacs-based out-of-box power-user IDE was how we got Lucid Emacs, aka XEmacs (which was one of the two big forks of GNU Emacs with GUI innovations that GNU took a while to catch up with)...

...from JWZ, et al.'s work on the Lucid Energize IDE for C++...

...and JWZ worked for Norvig early on...

...and Norvig was at Harlequin...

...and Harlequin acquired at least some of Lucid's IP.

[pjmlp]

XEmacs was the only thing that made lack of IDE culture on UNIX tolerable to me back in the 1990's.