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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 00:55:40 GMT
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From article <1989Dec15.172524.6463@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner):
> In article <5985@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes:
>>In article <7614@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> rfellman@ucsd.edu (Ronald Fellman) writes:
>>>In article <1630@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>>>> - A Resource Manager, permitting (among other things) international
>>>>   localization *without recompilation*, including all of the system
>>>>   software
> The company still has to translate documentation, etc.  What difference
> does it make if the program has to be recompiled with new strings?

You're missing the point about the resource manager. To really understand it,
you pretty much have to hack it. This is not an elitist viewpoint. It's just
that graphical intuition does not translate to the printed word.

Granted, NeXT has done a lot with graphical design of applications. But not as
much as Apple. Write your own NeXT graphical objects and see what I mean.

> The fact that the facility exists on the Macintosh does give it a head
> start, granted; but as a practical feature NOW, TODAY, the Script Manager
> is NO BIG DEAL.

Eh? Certainly it is; the Mac HAS a script manager. Does NeXT? The head start
if of course important. How long do you think it will take for a non-existent
script manager to be supported as opposed to an extant one?

> And as for the consistency of the User Interface, let me point out that
> NeXT makes it EASY for developers to comply with the Interface.

Nope. Interface consistency has nothing to do with the difficulty with which
the interface standard is adhered to. (Yes, I ended a sentence with a
preposition. Sue me.)

> Apple makes it VERY HARD INDEED, though they are beginning to address this
> with some object-oriented tools.

BEGINNING? Read the previous posts; OO has been with the Mac for 7 years.
NeXT as a company hasn't even existed that long. The lag is attributable
to the resistance to OO technology that is generalized in the field.
(Individuals C++ enthusiasts may think "What? Resistance?" -- but keep
in mind that the industry's backbone is still baldies guarding 200K line
Fortran programs.)
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