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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: 3D OpenLook a winner (was Re: Re^2: OSF/Motif vs. NeWS vs. SUN/Open Windows vs. ?)
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.205529.9834@intercon.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 20:55:29 GMT
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In article <4885@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>, mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
writes:
> "What's six lines long?"
> 	The source to the WINTERP version of 'Hello World'.
> 
> WINTERP is an XLISP interface to the Motif widget set. Loading the
> following 6 line expression into WINTERP's lisp server contradicts the
> above statements claiming that a 'Hello World' program in X windows is
> large.
>[omitted for brevity]

Winterp is extremely nifty, and brings to X many of the advantages of NeWS
<insert pats on the back here>, but it has one significant problem at the
moment: it does not support multiple simultaneous connections from clients,
and correspondingly it does not maintain more than one context.  It's wonderful
for playing around with MOTIF, but it doesn't look as useful for building
the UI parts of large applications in the way that NeWS is.  Granted, you
can compile WINTERP into your application, but that seems a little backward
for a UI server...

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
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