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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Interface Builder (was Re: NeXT Browser)
Message-ID: <5655@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 88 15:36:36 GMT
References: <6036@hoptoad.uucp> <7884@well.UUCP> <307@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <307@internal.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <7884@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov> writes:
>>And while we're pointing out things that NeXT copied from, has anyone else
>>noted the similarity of Application Builder to Paul Haeberli's "data-flow
>>programming environment"?  See the 1986 Summer Usenix proceedings, page 419.
>
>A reference on Interface Builder itself is "SOS Interface, Un generateur
>d'Interfaces Homme-Machine" by J.M. Huillot from Bigre + Globule No 48,
>January 1986. ...

It should be noted that Jean-Marie Hullot (the author of the above article)
is the person actually implementing Interface Builder on the NeXT machine.
The implementation is based on his research from up to four years ago;
the basic idea is that of user interface objects connected together with the 
"target-action" paradigm in an object oriented environment.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com