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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next Wish List
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.113401.23290@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 24 Nov 90 11:34:01 GMT
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barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman):
| 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.

  Hang on one minute... I think we can all agree the NeXT is a very nice
environment for developers. I must disagree, however, with the idea that
previous applications were "constraints." I guess you are real handy
with an eraser so doing spreadsheet things by hand allows you to easily
rearrange how your numbers are displayed. This naturally easy task must
be cramped by the likes of 1-2-3 and Excel.
  Software metaphors will undoubtedly continue to get better along the
lines of 1-2-3 --> Improv. Let's not go overboard by calling things what
they are not. 
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