urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (01/16/90)
In comp.sys.mac ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
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< One thing that I LIKE about the IBM world is that the computers are so much
< easier to program! On the Mac, geez... I guess in order to make Mac users'
< lives easier, the Mac had to make the programmers' job harder.
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I don't really think so...
OK if you want to make a quick-and-dirty pseudo-command-line interface, but
for graphics -- ugh. Or proportional fonts -- double ugh. Or printing --
triple ugh.
In my opinion, as soon as there are requirements which conceptually demand
more from your typical application than the typical command line
(modelessness, and all that), you need more than your typical top-down
programming style.
I don't think I am the only one who dreams of better programming interfaces,
but these all seem to result in either a loss of generality or an even steeper
learning curve. MacApp seems to be an example of the latter.
Is this any different from, say, X Windows?
(It seems to me that the typical larger X program is still far too modal, in
comparison with the typical Mac program, which might have an impact on this.)
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Matthias Urlichs