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by pjmlp 2847 days ago
I disagree, for me the local maximas in terms of productive UX is the vision of XEROX PARC workstations, partially implemented on OS X/iOS, Android and Windows development workflows.

Even AT&T later moved into it with Plan 9 and Inferno, with ACME.
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TeMPOraL 2847 days ago
I did some amount of Android and Windows development; what particular pieces of the PARC vision do you have in mind?
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pjmlp 2847 days ago
IDE based development, GUI designers, REPLs, graphical debuggers, edit-and-continue, component based frameworks, structured data command line (PowerShell), apis to interact with GUI apps from devenv, dynamic configuration of running apps.

All to be found on Interlisp-D, Smalltalk, Mesa XDE, Mesa/Cedar environments.

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