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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Motif Issues & the Semiotics of User Interfaces
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Date: 9 Jan 91 16:06:06 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.033956.996@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
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In article <1991Jan9.033956.996@watdragon.waterloo.edu> tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) writes:
>
>2. It's too hard to learn and there are too many irritating little nits.
>Sorry that I can't be more quantitative, but I went in already intimately
>familiar with Unix, C, and Xlib, and spent altogether too much time struggling
>with minutiae about resource interactions and widget hierarchy issues.  I
>think the solution to this is to take a higher-level approach via WCL or UIL
>or one of their ilk, but there are also good reasons for not wanting to do
>this.  E.g., somebody who already doesn't understand Xt and Xm may not want to
>also not-understand another layer of the system.  Also, higher-level tools
>have a history of requiring the relinquishment of fine control, 4GL's are the
>best example, 90% of the application is easy, the remaining 10% impossible.
>
   The beauty of WCL is not in it's syntax etc (just oposite-), but in the fact
   that it does NOT get in your way. You can always include peaces of whatever
   fine control you wish. Plus, the "another layer of the system" presented
   by WCL is so simple (you have to use resource files anyway, don't you ?),
   that it can be fully mastered within hours.

   Considering your (valid) comment "struggling with minutiae about resource
   interactions", that was the MAIN motivation behind "inventing" WCL. 
   I needed a very FAST and EASY way to TRY various resource interactions
   in Motif.....

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