Half-baked UI goals/proposal

[Mike Prince]

On Wed, 28 Dec 1994, Chris Harris wrote:

> Afraid I disagree with you here.  First, I don't think people want to 
> interact with cells.  I see higher-level objects etc. as a better base 
> for UI.  There has to be something at the low level, though, so this 
> might be it.  (I'm working on some HLL thoughts, so I'll pass those on 
> perhaps tonight.)

Sorry, I'm stuck in the LLL programming mode.  Of course most programming 
would be done in the HLL.  I'm only showing how little LLL code it might 
take to accomplish tasks, and how the OS parts might interact.

> I'm afraid this is turning into 
> another high-level vs. low-level war, which is not good, to say the 
> least.

Don't worry, I think we were just looking at the same thing from two 
different views.  The UI has to be a high level concept as you said.

Mike