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- From: uunet!ficc!peter (Peter da Silva)
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- Regarding a standard API for windows:
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- > I am not sure that X is the best
- > choice, but it is a widely accepted base: the basis for any standard.
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- I'm pretty sure it isn't. X is not a very clean interface, and it's
- much too low-level. The standard interface should not require the
- programmer to manually create and destroy menus, handle expose events,
- and so on. Look at UNIX: the API was tiny, 35 or so system calls to do
- everything that other operating systems required hundreds of entry
- points to do. You just dealt with files... details like disk space
- allocation, buffer allocation, and so on were hidden from the user.
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- Window systems should be like this. Something like the X toolkits, but
- without the toolkits' underlying complexity.
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- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.
- 'U` Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>.
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- "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." -- Dennis
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 93
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