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From: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: MVC RIP ?
Message-ID: <466@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jan 88 18:54:02 GMT
References: <465@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Reply-To: de@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David England)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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In article <465@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> neil@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Neil Haddley) writes:
>
>Obviously apple have decided to move away from the MVC idea,  for
>reasons  known only to themselves, and I don't think they will be
>alone in  trying  to  find  some  other  interface  paradigm  for
>Smalltalk cos MVC is no panacea .
>

MVC is fine for prototyping/hacking in Smalltalk but its locked into
the idiosyncracies of the Smalltalk "machine" implementation. Sounds like 
you need a more abstract specification (esp. for "generic interfaces) or 
a graphics UIMS.  See Silbert et al. SIGGRAPH '86, Jacob ACM trans. on
graphics, Oct 1986 or Coutaz Interact 87 for stuff in that direction.
Who is this guy anyway :-)

Dave de@lancs.comp.ac.uk@ucl.cs.nss
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