[rescue] NeWS

[David P Harris]

I used NeWS to do some research stuff -- plots and such.  I think you 
all are being a little unfair, as it was really only in its infancy, and 
hadn't been developed to its potential.  

I have a copy of News 1.0 -- if anyone has a later edition, I would be 
interested in it. 

Thanks,
David


Richard wrote:

>In article <200601180338.WAA21010 at Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
>    der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>  writes:
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>>>>>I tried writing some UI by programming the display postscript and
>>>>>it was horrible.
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>>>>Writing UIs by programming Xlib is not that great either.
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>>>The comparable tool at the time wasn't Xlib (after all NeWS had
>>>objects you could instantiate, you didn't have to write raw DPS),
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>>...but I thought you said you were writing in DPS...
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>NeWS had basic objects you could instantiate for things like menus and
>whatnot, but you still had to write your own postscript glue to make
>it all work together.  It wasn't as bad as having to draw every single
>piece of UI chrome in your own PS code, but the glue was pretty
>horrendous.
>....
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