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Multi-language IDEs that interact with interpreters via protocols are now common, from classic Emacs with its inferior process protocols to VS Code with LSP and similar modern environments.
This paper described an early exploration of these ideas: a language-independend, Interlisp-based environment that interfaced with language processors over the ARPANET. In 1974.
@amoroso nice find! I haven't seen this one.
@symbolics When I ran across it the analogy with modern IDEs and protocols immediately hit me.
@amoroso All the great ideas are old ideas, absurdly implemented.
@haitchfive The history of computing is as important as current engineering.
@amoroso Or quite possibly, even more so.
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