[openbeos] Re: Data or App Centric?
- From: Helmar Rudolph <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:27:19 +0200
Mikael Jansson (mailing lists) wrote:
> http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v5i21_aza.html
AZA: The fundamental idea that differentiates THE from
everything else is that the world consists of exactly two
distinct objects: Content and operations on that content.
Things like text, images, and movies are content. Things like
printing, converting to MP3, and translating to Japanese are
operations. When you wish to complete a particular task you
select the set of content you wish to operate upon and then
issue the appropriate command to invoke the operation. If you
have text selected, you can do things like move, copy, make
italics, or send as e-mail. If you have an image selected,
you can change its contrast, remove scratches, or send it as
e-mail. You can use any command on any content at anytime. If
you try to motion blur text, the system is smart enough to
realize that it should be treating the text as an image and
does the conversion automatically. Thus, we have done away
with the idea of "applications" and replaced them with a more
powerful and more humane paradigm.
Now the case is really rested. I guess great minds think alike. :))
Helmar
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