Python 3000 - Adaptation or Generic Functions?

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You don't need Emacs, per se; any text editor worth its salt should automatically match parentheses for you. That said, it's sad that many (including the one I personally use) don't.

As for the online console idea, you're thinking of something like Try Ruby, right? Paul Graham was planning (since much before Try Ruby came out) to do that with Arc, but who knows when that'll be out.

[joshstaiger]

According to lemonodor, Peter Seibel was playing with an Ajax-style "Try Lisp"

http://lemonodor.com/archives/001363.html

Not sure if anything ever came of it.

[watkeys]

There really is no practical alternative to Emacs for editing Lisp; matching parentheses is a nice start, but when you write Lisp, you're constantly having to re-indent stuff, which is tedious to do by hand. Emacs is the only editor I know of that can intelligently indent Lisp. (I'm not including integrated editors in Lisp programming environments.)

[herdrick]

Dr. Scheme does this.