Programming environments on the XO

[Samuel Klein]

There has been talk about expanding Pippy to support a variety of
programming languages, perhaps as plugins; to add syntax highlighting; and
general interest in seeing Develop proceed.  Syntax highlighting in Write
has been brought up as well.  C and Javascript environments have been
specifically highlighted, since C is used for a fair bit of code that we
ship; but enthusiasts of Ruby and many other languages have considered
providing an intro dev environment as a standalone activity, one per
language.  And HTML creation is possible in Write but without highlighting,
and it is not obvious how to put this to good use.

Finally, we now have activities for Etoys (Squeak), Scratch, and Turtle Art,
but not yet a Logo activity; though a few people are working on the latter.

Where are we with these developments?  What plans are there to complete any
of the above this year?  What specific features should we schedule to
support the above, and which is most important?

SJ
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