NeXT & the Web (Score 1)

A favorite link of mine is Tim's w3.org page about the first WWW browser he wrote (actually, it was a browser/editor).

To quote Tim: "I wrote the program using a NeXT computer. This had the advantage that there were some great tools available -it was a great computing environment in general. In fact, I could do in a couple of months what would take more like a year on other platforms, because on the NeXT, a lot of it was done for me already. There was an application builder to make all the menus as quickly as you could dream them up. there were all the software parts to make a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get - in other words direct manipulation of text on screen as on the printed - or browsed page) word processor. I just had to add hypertext, (by subclassing the Text object)"

His observations regarding the productivity of NeXTSTEP development ring true for MacOSX today...

CousinChimpy
(Troy Stephens)