Re: Transition to Wolfram Workbench
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- Subject: [mg108079] Re: Transition to Wolfram Workbench
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:10:51 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, > > To pursue the inquiry a bit further, Workbench seems to be called an > "environment" -- a term that may have varied meanings. > > Would it also be properly called an "app"? Eclipse is a regular "application" and the application type is IDE, that is "Integrated Development Environment", a class of applications that traditionally integrate stuff like compilers, build tools, debuggers, version control and some more in one application. The Wolfram Workbench is a plugin for eclipse which adds support for the programming language Mathematica to eclipse, that is an editor that knows Mathematica syntax, a debugger, a profiler and some other tools that help with standard tasks that a Mathematica programmer will be faced when writing a Mathematica package or application. If you are interested, learn more about eclipse at www.eclipse.org > As an operational question, if you Open Workbench on a Mac, does > "Workbench" appear just the right of the Apple Menu in the menu bar? I don't have a Mac handy, and never used neither Wolfram Workbench nor Eclipse on a Mac, so I simply don't know, I'm also not sure which menu bar you are referring to... hth, albert