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To leave Commie, hyper to
http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html
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My realtime quoting session of Del Miller's column continues. More excerpts:
"This is a world dominated by Microsoft, and the model of complicated and
costly software development works to their advantage. Few small developers
could possibly compete with Microsoft's engineering muscle and those that do
are obligated by sheer economics to write niche applications that run on
Windows. Microsoft wins either way.
But what if there was an alternative? What if a small developer could use a
sophisticated, object oriented development environment that cut the amount
of programming effort to a tenth or less over existing methods and produced
applications that were instantly integrated with any other program written
for the platform? What if that development environment automatically
provided services for web enabling and spellcheckers and even generated a
slick, well thought out user interface? What if that environment produced
software that ran in a stable, secure, multi-threaded, multi-processing Unix
environment and just happened to have a ready-made market of twenty-five
million users, starving for new applications?"
(...)
"If only such a world existed. Oh wait...it does!
That environment is Cocoa, formerly known as NeXTSTEP. This world of
reuseable objects and rapid development, a world of software that integrates
with the work of others rather than competes against it, this was the credo
of NeXT Computers and Steve Jobs spoke endlessly of its potential. This was
Steve Jobs' vision for NeXT a decade ago, but NeXT came on the scene as
Microsoft was taking control of the software industry and it was just too
small to fight the juggernaut. When Apple bought NeXT they were buying that
dream, except the synergy of the two companies can now make it a reality."
(...)
"This is what Apple has spent the last four years putting in place; a huge,
integrated framework for the future."
( http://www.macopinion.com/columns/engine/01/05/31/index.html )
---> Jarmo Lundgren, multimediatsaari
Helsingin Sanomat, Verkkoliite
p. 09-1227555 / 040-5345868
"Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow
