13 May
2013
13 May
'13
5:23 p.m.
On Tue, 14 May 2013, Nigel Williams wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs
at shiresoft.com> wrote:
I was sent to CommonPoint training at Taligent in 1995. I believe I
still have a virgin copy of the CommonPoint software at the office. I
found a note to my boss in the email archives, with some thoughts about
the training:
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1. The training environment was excellent, and the instructor was one of
the best I've worked with: very knowledgeable.
2. CommonPoint looks like it will be a good environment to develop
graphical, client/server and multimedia applications, when it's finished
(it isn't).
3. CommonPoint is still very much under development, and only graduated
Taligent was to be part of the application
framework. The microkernel used by Pink and
the object model were "toys". Much of the consternation over Taligent at IBM
was fighting
over trying to get fundamental issues addressed (which I won't go into here...it
would take
many hours to compose a sane account).
Did some of the Taligent codebase end up in SUN's Java implementation,
perhaps the libraries?
I encourage you to add to the story of Taligent. I remember at the
time Taligent gained a lot of press attention, particularly when Apple
was struggling with what to do with their operating system and Pink
was seen as the answer. from beta status, the week before our class.
CommonPoint applications
must run in their own CommonPoint window area, rather then
on the native
desktop (Xwindows, for instance).
4. The development tools used in class were very slow, resulting in
compile and link times of up to 20 minutes, for simple applications. A
test version of "CommonPoint Professional", an Integrated Development
Environment, was demonstrated to us later in the week, and the speed gains
were drastic. The IDE is just entering Alpha test, and will only be
available to a small number of developers, at first. The IDE is going to
be a necessity, for any serious development work. CommonPoint
Professional is a separate product.
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