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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Toolkits & User Interface Deevolution
Message-ID: <4507@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Jun 89 13:47:06 GMT
References: <2904@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support
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Interface builders are nice, but they really don't solve the basic problem...
which is a standard programmer interface to windowing. Even with the best
IB in the world, you still have to write code to actually talk to the screen.

It seems to me that windowing systems are where Basic was in the early
seventies, with a dozen mutually incompatible dialects... none of them
particularly nice. You all know what's happened there. The standard for Basic
is now Microsoft's rather poor design (even for a Basic).

Yes, I realise that using Basic as an analogy is not calculated to please, but
I really don't think any of the programmer interfaces to windows are any better
designed. Basic has a poor programming paradigm, but pretty much all windowing
systems are no better as graphics programming paradigms.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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