Resources

• jEdit is written in Java and has been in development for over five years.
  
  
• IDLEfork has some nice improvements to the version of IDLE that comes with most Python distributions; but the best of these get rolled back into IDLE itself with new Python releases.
  
  
• Leo is billed as a literate programming tool, data organizer, and project manager.
  
  
• MacPython is available for Mac OS X as well as for Mac OS 9 or earlier.
  
  
• Learn more about Python development tools and Python in general at the PythonInfo Wiki.
  
  
• Download Emacs and documentation -- even find out why it's called Emacs (contrary to legend, it doesn't stand for escape-meta-alt-control-shift) -- all at Gnu.org.
  
  
• Of course, you can also use Emacs for Java programming or with DB2 (you know, you can use Emacs for everything!). Read more in "Emacs a top-notch Java IDE? You bet!" and "Tips for Using Emacs with DB2."
  
  
• Donald E. Knuth is Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University and author of Literate Programming (Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1992).
  
  
• IBM's Rational Rose XDE Developer offers an IDE for Java, C++, Visual Studio, .NET and more.
  
  
• IBM alphaWorks offers several Java IDEs for download.
  
  
• See what has changed since the last time David looked at Python IDEs in "A review of Python IDEs: The raw and the cooked."
  
  
• See what David has to say about XML editors in "XML Matters: Roundup of XML editors."