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Date: Sun 31-Dec-1991 06:39:16 From: edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward JUNG) Subject: Class Libraries, Re: NeXT vs. Sun: A World of Difference David Pollak writes: >After watching the NeXT vs. Sun video, I was a little put off. You make alot of good points, but it is difficult to make a framework for applications that will satisfy everybody. The main goals are: 1: do most of the work for most of the apps 2. enforce consistency of UI and object interfaces 3. enable upgrading of functionality In these areas, NeXT has succeeded admirably. The evolution of AppKit since 0.9 has been "relatively" smooth. The overall consistency of their app UI has been very good. AppKit encourages developers to create extensions that are compatible with the object interfaces already defined, which encourages more "plug and play" (although there is still a lack of architectural support in the OS for this), and they *do* do most of the work for most of the apps. True, doing a full-blown commercial app is still hard, but so it goes. As you said at the end of your post, it's still quite a nice system to get things up and running on -- at least a prototype. And more than most other systems, it encourages MIS-level programmers to string together IB-level "objects" to create "custom" apps.
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