ejd@iris.brown.edu (Ed Devinney) (09/28/89)
In article <4399@internal.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes: > ...I really don't see how you can call NeXTStep an "OS" at all... Point well made; properly speaking it's not an OS, but it still is more than "just UN*X". As far as the AppKit and MacApp, I find the AppKit to be somewhat more logically organized than MacApp, although v2.0 has alleviated quite a lot of what I used to find annoyingly arcane in MacApp. The AppKit also offers some nice window classes (like buffered windows) that make some more-advanced apps easier to build. And it's in a flavor of C, which is a personal preference. The thing that I like most about MacApp, though, is that you can always check the code as a last resort when the documentation isn't enough. They laughed a lot at NeXT when, while attending the first developer's seminar, my associate and I asked to look at some source to get our own answers to poorly documented problems. Methinks my further blabberings should go to e-mail to save bandwidth. I'll join anyone who's interested. ed ++++++ ed devinney, IRIS/Brown University, Providence, RI...ejd@iris.brown.edu -- ...Elvis was a hero to most, but he didn't mean sh*t to me...(P.E.) --