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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: Next Wish List
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Date: 22 Nov 90 01:03:35 GMT
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In article <2489.274A5E64@blkcat.fidonet.org> Mitch.Alland@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mitch Alland) writes:
>As a business user, here are the programs that I'd like to see on the 
>NeXT, 

[wishes deleted]

Personally, I'd much rather have new software developed from the
ground up than ports/copies of existing applications from
the PC/Mac world.

The reason being: the NeXT is so ``insanely greater'' than previous
platforms, that the software can really be ``done right'' if
developers rethink things from the ground up. Lotus Improv
is one example---they free the spreadsheet from many unnecessary,
unnatural, and unholy constraints spawned during the PC/Mac generation.

I appreciate that businesses users have more pressing concerns
than aesthetically correct software,
but hopefully their need for ``backward compatibility'' can be met
by having ultra-sharp apps that are data-backwards-compatible, 
instead of just having more backwards apps :-)

I think lotus Improv is great for showing how things could be done,
and I hope they---or others---similarly rework other apps.
--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)