pugh jon%e.mfenet@LLL-MFE.ARPA (03/16/86)
As an addition to my letter about Andy Hertzfeld's Servant I should point out a few other things. First of all, to all you programmers out there, if you are concerned about being compatible with Servant, you should make sure your application works with Switcher and you should have no problems. Second, Andy is planning a new way of opening things that I think is a Marvelous idea (stolen from Xerox, I suspect). When you double click on a document, it is not at all clear what program you are running. This is especially true for text documents which can go through editors and compilers. What he proposed was to drag a document into an application and it would open it with that file. That sounds to me like a major improvement. It took me the longest time to realize that the c compiler would only show files with a .c extension. It ain't very Mac-like. I think Andy should be named the official Mac guru. After all, as he said, he has been programming on the Mac for three years longer than anyone else. Maybe he will take that job at Next just to get away from the Mac for awhile like he hinted, hmmmm? Jon