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To: Gerry Hurley who wrote (16060)	7/29/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: basiji	Respond to of 213182

Gerry, In my experience, the Yellow Box is the best development environment available. Like any powerful tool, it is complex and can be frustrating at times, but the advantages are compelling. The Interface Builder turns a task that was formerly drudgery into something easy and flexible. Objective C can be learned in one day if you already know C and are familiar with object oriented programming. Such things as printing, saving images in different file formats, text operations (cut, copy, paste, etc), user preferences, pasteboard manipulations, and many other programming tasks are reduced to one or just a few lines of code thanks to the sophistication of the object-oriented OS. Cross-platform development is generally childs-play, a mere click of a checkbox in the builder application. I could go on and on. The beauty of NeXTSTEP extended beyond the development environment. The entire OS was just as elegant and powerful. To this day, I have not found an operating system that is as sophisticated while being so easy to use. The computer just got out of the way and let you do your work without interruption or exasperation. In comparison, Windows and the MS applications are crude. OS 8.1 is better but still feels like a toy in comparison. One painful by-product of the OSX transition will be the loss of Display PostScript. I don't think that most people, even within the developer community, appreciated how powerful and critical DPS was. Nevertheless, I can understand why Apple is moving away from it. Adobe always demanded licensing fees of $300 per copy of NeXTSTEP. They'd have to get that fee down below $30 for it to make sense in a consumer OS and I doubt that Adobe was far-sighted enough to consider it. Any idea what the latest estimate is for the release of OSX Server? -basiji