Dreaming of new generation IDE

[Stef Mientki]

On 03-02-2010 16:48, Vladimir Ignatov wrote:
>> I don't see what the advantage of the use of a database is in a fairly
>> linear hierarchical structure like python objects and modules.
>>      
> Imagine simple operation like "method renaming" in a simple "dumb"
> environment like text editor + grep. Now imagine how simple it can be
> if system "knows" all your identifiers and just regenerates relevant
> portions of text from internal database-alike representation.
>    
I think every IDE (not older than 20 years) does that already.
cheers,
Stef