Eclipse Lite Languages

As part of the Eclipse University Outreach initiative, I have developed plug-ins that allow students to evaluate Scheme and Prolog in Eclipse. A beta version of the Scheme plug-ins is now available. After resolving some licensing issues, the Prolog beta version should be available in June.  You can view the user guides here for both to get a feel for what they can do. You can also download the Scheme plug-ins from the same location. Next up will be a lite version for Java.

The Beginning

I started my sabbatical at the Eclipse Foundation January 7, 2008, with main goal of starting a University Outreach program that attempts to increase the number of students entering the workforce with experience using Eclipse technology. A secondary goal is to provide university and college lecturers with Eclipse content and have them provide new content back to the program. For completeness, “Eclipse technology” extends beyond an IDE (though this is a great starting point). Ideally, students graduate from university with at least an awareness of the many frameworks, and APIs provided by the various Eclipse projects.