Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!umd5!umd5.umd.edu!anderson From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Next Wish List Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 90 15:46:59 GMT References: <2489.274A5E64@blkcat.fidonet.org> <786@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University Lines: 21 In article <786@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: 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. This is certainly true for flexible, general purpose applications like spreadsheets, wordprocessors, programming environments, etc. It is less obvious for specifically targeted things. I know I'd much rather have a straight port of MacinTax right now than a re-thought version in six months (i.e., after 15 April.....) Steve Anderson