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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NextStep and NeWS...
Keywords: NextStep,NeWS,Postscript
Message-ID: <3901@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 18 Apr 89 16:01:50 GMT
References: <1041@nixctc.DE> <8530@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <8530@polya.Stanford.EDU>, ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes:
> One of the goals of NextStep is to make sure the programmer does not have
> to write any more PostScript than is necessary to do the his/her custom
> drawing. All user interface objects exist in Objective C...

Is this really so desirable? I thought NeWS' model was a very nice division
of labor. You get a much greater degree of user programmability as well. Why
is it more desirable to hardcode interface decisions into the application?
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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