The paradigm of containers and self-referenced names

[Dan Shafer]

You gave me a real blast from the past with this one, Mikey. I was an 
early enthusiast of Omnis, back when it was Omnis-3. (Last I checked 
they were up to 7 and it looks like that's where things still are about 
a year later.)

It was a wonderful development tool as long as you didn't want to do 
anything its developers hadn't anticipated. But the walls were frequent 
and invisible right up to the point of contact.

The programming paradigm -- point-and-click to build commands and 
little or no typing (as in keyboard entry, not variable typing) -- was 
enticing but limiting.

I was the founder and original president of OmniMUG, the Omnis 
Macintosh User Group (at least I recall that's what the "M" was for; I 
think it hadn't yet gone cross-platform).

Memories.....


On Mar 25, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Mikey wrote:

> Yet, Mark, the tool that might really be for you is one called Omnis.
> Omnis has been around forever.
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Dan Shafer, Co-Chair
RevConWest '05
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