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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Subject: kanji---a nifty e.g. of object orientation
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 22:16:23 GMT

Here's a neat example of the pay-off from an object-oriented 
platform: (the following is taken from some of the
PR documents NeXT released last week)

" Even without a Kanji version of the NeXT computer, sales in Asia have 
been healthy.  Demand is expected to increase dramatically when the 
Kanji version begins shipping by early third quarter, 1991, especially 
because users with the beta version of NeXT's Kanji computer report that 
it is the best implementation ever offered by any vendor.

	NeXT's Kanji capabilities are built on a Kanji-English text object 
---a software object that is part of NeXTstep's object-oriented programming 
environment. Because the text object is available automatically in NeXTstep, 
any NeXTstep-based software application---which includes every major 
application available ffor the NeXT platform---automatically inherits Kanji 
capabilities and can be run on a Kanji NeXT computer with no modifications.
This feature alone is expected to create incredible demand for 
the Kanji-based NeXT computers."

Pretty nifty "solution", eh?



--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)