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Subject: Re: wanted: information about "Creating
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 01:52:00 EST
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The story that I've heard is that "Creating a User-Interface" will
never be published.  One of the reasons might be that the Smalltalk
user-interface toolkit is undergoing massive changes, and they didn't
want to publish something that would soon be obsolete.  Smalltalk
really needs a good book describing how to use model/view/controllers.
One of its greatest strengths is its user-interface and the ability
it gives to Smalltalk programmers to quickly create complicated
graphical user-interfaces.  M/V/C both needs and deserves to be
well described.  I see more and more systems that are take-offs of
M/V/C.  Of course, the derivation is never mentioned, and it might
not even be known by the authors, since they borrowed some ideas from
someone who borrowed some ideas, ... , from Smalltalk.

Ralph Johnson