[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother

[Christoph Wille]

At 10:21 AM 6/28/2004, Emiel van de Laar wrote:
>>Sure , you can look at the source code , I have taken lots of ideas from
>>sharpdevelop , Eclipse and Visual Studio but I have not used source code
>>from any of this products.
>>Some interfaces may have property names , methods or comments similar to SD
>>or VS (its normal , I have learnt form them) .If you find any copyrighted
>>code I will remove it for sure , but please don't acuse me of using
>>copyrighted code before even analize the code.
>
>I'm currently working on a similar framework, but not necessarily focused 
>on IDE's. I have studied Mono- and Sharpdevelop, Eclipse and others. These 
>are all impressive pieces of engineering and I have learned a lot from 
>them. Because I have studied them I wouldn't be surprised if I define 
>similar interfaces. My question is, how far can
>a person go? Defining the interfaces is a large portion of the work,
>especially when designing a framework.

We are talking implementation. Interfaces in certain framework areas tend 
to be "patternized" over their lifetime.

Chris