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- From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Why, Why, WHYYYY?? USE OBJECTIVE-C for IB??
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <dillon.0st6@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- References: <1fjjhkINN10l@access.usask.ca> <Bz5x32.80A@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:57:30 PST
- Organization: Not an Organization
- Lines: 48
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- In article <Bz5x32.80A@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> 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.
- >:
- >: jake
- >:
- >: --
- >
- >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.
- >
- > USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT USER AGENT
-
- REXX REXX REXX REXX REXX REXX ...
-
- Rexx has become very popular on the Amiga as a binding agent between
- applications, it is part of the operating system now. In fact, it
- gives the Amiga inter-application operability that the NeXT can't touch
- (cut and paste just doesn't make it and API's are for programmer's,
- ARexx is for power users!)
-
- -Matt
-
- >--
- >Lee Sailer
- >
- > - Let's leave my employer
-
- --
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