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One of the ones I remember being particularly interesting is InterViews, which someone has archived here: https://github.com/steinarb/interviews https://github
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
One of the ones I remember being particularly interesting is InterViews, which someone has archived here:
https://github.com/steinarb/interviews https://github.com/steinarb/interviews
original paper describing it here:
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/88/358/CSL-TR-88-358.pdf http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/88/358/CSL-TR-...
Which in turn begat "Fresco" which then there was an attempt at a successor called "Berlin" by Graydon Hoare (of Rust fame), but it was, I believe never finished. I remember following it eagerly.
- pjmlp 3y agoAh! I remember seeing something about it on the usual suspects, DDJ and The C/C++ Users Journal.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoIt was a dark era for Unix UI development -- before GTK & Qt, and when Motif was supposed to be "standard" but was locked behind restrictive licensing, and Sun's (actually open source) XView got no uptake (and Sun had abandoned OpenView for Motif anyways). Everything was a hodgepodge. Bad memories.
- pjmlp 3y agoWe had access to RogueWave frameworks, so not that bad. However things eventually moved on, when I started using GNU/Linux in production, it was either Tcl/Tk or Swing.