Having worked with OpenDoc (and never shipped -- I wonder how many of us reached that point!), it was dire -- the concept was a super good idea and all that, bu

Having worked with OpenDoc (and never shipped -- I wonder how many of us reached that point!), it was dire -- the concept was a super good idea and all that, but the implementation was so incredibly complicated that it took a huge amount of work to do.... anything really. And then all your work was a 'component' that had no real branding, identity or way to the market, anyway.. It was the time when Apple APIs went completely overboard in the amount of code required to do /anything/; OpenDoc was incredible in it's complexity; but even something like OpenTransport was fantastic amount of work to do anything simple -- especially compared to BSD sockets! AppleScript was another one, being 'scriptable' was a lot of work, but being 'recordable' was a complete nightmare, and implementing the most complex language clauses was borderline suicide, the 'whose' clauses were amazing in their complexity for a feature absolutely nobody would use. But, still, I miss Classic -- I think there was a lot of good that was thrown with the bath water when OSX arrived; sure, the underlying got a serious upgrade, but the user interface and anything associated got a serious downgrade, to this day really. I think the modern Finder is abhorrent, the Classic Finder was a beauty of consistency and ease of use in comparison. Yeah sure you got a couple of gadgets, that's it.