johnc@ms.uky.edu (John Coppinger) (03/27/91)
NeXTstep 2.0 was honored with the "Jolt Award" for most impressive
programming environment in the April 1991 issue of Computer Language
magazine. "The Jolt Product Excellece Award [is given] in recognition
of products that gave our industry a jolt..." In praise of NeXTstep,
the editors said:
With Display PostScript, extensive support for Objective C
and C++, and potent graphical run-time browsers, NeXTstep
2.0 Extended is a great operating system and development
environment, the envy of all who poke along on just plain
ordinary computers. Interface Builder, in particular, is
to die for. If only Windows offered a tool as comprehensive.
Other environments mentioned, but not as highly regarded, were MacApp
2.0, Objectworks/Smalltalk v 4.0, and Saber-C v 3.0.
More and more, NeXTs seems to be moving into the mainstream computer
industry. Perhaps with this review as a groundbreaker, NeXTstep
programming will begin to receive its fair share of copy space in
the popular programming journals like Computer Language, Dr. Dobbs,
and Programmer's Journal. More programmer awareness means more
apps. More apps means more users. More users means more machines.
More machines means more programmers. Et cetera.
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