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- From: charon@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Sebastian Florian Mix)
- Subject: Re: Why, Why, WHYYYY?? USE OBJECTIVE-C for IB??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.143440.9118@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <1fjjhkINN10l@access.usask.ca> <Bz5x32.80A@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:34:40 GMT
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- sailer@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Lee Sailer) writes:
-
- >jake@skatter.usask.ca wrote:
- >: From article <1fg7kqINNi29@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, by isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell):
- >: >
- >: >
- >: > What Edit needs is emacs' CM-b and CM-f functionality to conveniently jump to
- >: > the start and end of a bracketed clause so that those starting brackets can be
- >: > easily inserted.
- >: > --
- >: >
- >: > Art Isbell Cubic Solutions
- >: What Edit needs is to be able to interpret elisp.
- >
- >What NeXTstep needs is an independent USER AGENT object that sits outside
- >of any and all programs, accepts commands in some suitable language, and
- >executes them. If the language happened to be elisp, then that set of
- >capabilities could be extracted from emacs. Emacs could still use it to
- >work exacctly the way it works now. Edit could use it. NeXTMail could
- >use it. All god's chillun could use it.
- >
- No, you didn't say REXX, don't you };-)>
- User Agent objects of this kind are a fine idea, but their succes
- or failure mainly depends on how widespread they become (= how many
- applications are available to export functions through UAs) and on
- the amount of fiddling around with the system they will save you from.
- GNU-Emacs is fine as long as you're lisp-wizard or can live with those
- packets you can get from the net. But it grows and grows...
- So, a more general approach would be of more use, perhaps someone
- has compiled REXX for the NeXT and has build a nice sample-app
- to show its use under NeXTstep ? Or perhaps NeXT Inc. will show us a
- mindbogglingly new way in user-configurable interprocess communication ?
-
- > USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT
- >
- REXX REXX REXX REXX REXX ?????
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