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Also, I'm not sure that of all of Gosling's achievements, I would point to Java-the-language (or the UTTERLY GODAWFUL initial libraries) as a particular exempla
by jfb 14y ago
Also, I'm not sure that of all of Gosling's achievements, I would point to Java-the-language (or the UTTERLY GODAWFUL initial libraries) as a particular exemplar of elegance. NeWS was much, much, much more interesting and forward-thinking, for one.
- jfoutz 14y agohis phd thesis was pretty cool. It's one approach at a constraint solver built into a language. I can't, off the top of my head think of any direct application (maybe some prolog variant), but it's a neat way to model stuff.
- jfb 14y agoPerhaps I'm overstating Gosling's contributions to NeWS, or perhaps he was in fact an elegance sink, and the reason NeWS lost out to the unutterably execrable X-Windows was because he was on the project.
- agumonkey 14y agoThere's desperately few informations about NeWS (at least with my limited googling abilities)
- arethuza 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem I developed against NeWS (mostly using HyperNeWS) for a research project in the early 90s - was a huge amount of fun.
- agumonkey 14y agoThose are the desperately few I was aware of. That said I never looked into the NeWS book. I'll keep digging
- arethuza 14y agoIf you like NeWS then I can recommend trying to find out about Arthur van Hoff's HyperNeWS which was, as the name suggests, a HyperCard like system but written in NeWS. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/index.html