I know very little about NeXt, but I was wondering if these concepts are still alive in GNUstep and/or Mac OS X?
Jon On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote: > > Another good example of Unix at work: Small tools that can be chained > > together for accomplishing a variety of tasks. > > The whole "toolbox" approach, allowing complex commands to be built out > of a kit of programs (that often, outside that context, appeared useless) > was one of the revolutionary aspects of Unix. > > A visual version of the same concept started to come to fruition with > NeXt--a toolkit of graphical widgets that you strung together in a GUI > version of shell programming. (Pity Jobs was driving...) > > Somewhere in there, Microsoft showed up and buggered the whole thing > with *its* steamroller approach using an integrated monolithic GUI and > killing CLI. > > Now a whole new generation of folks are re-discovering shell programming. > We can only hope that a good visual toolkit will re-emerge. > -- > Dave Ihnat > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
