'nospam' wrote this:
>In article , aracari
> wrote:
>
>> >> >> >the original mac os was purely gui, with a command line bolted on much
>> >> >> >later.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Probably nonsense.
>> >> >
>> >> >it's not 'probably nonsense.' it's exactly correct.
>> >>
>> >> Well, perhaps you'd like to explain in simple words why you
>> >> believe this.
>> >
>> >because i've been writing software for macs for a long time and i know
>> >the internals inside out.
>>
>> Am I supposed to be impressed?
>
>you asked how i knew. that's how i know.
>
>> >perhaps you'd like to explain why you doubt it.
>>
>> Afaics what you have said so far is that a GUI was created to run
>> programs, but you have not explained how and when those programs
>> were written. My view is that they were written *before* the GUI,
>> because that is the normal sequence of things, otherwise you would
>> have no way of testing the GUI.
>
>the gui and whatever the app does are created together. it might be a
>minimal gui at first, but it's still a gui.
>
>> A GUI without programs to run is pretty useless.
>
>any computer without programs is useless.
>
>> GUI = Graphical User Interface.
>>
>> I do not discount that someone sketched out a GUI *before*
>> writing the programs that it will run to work out what features
>> they wanted in it and its general design etc, but that is not
>> what you have said.
>
>there's just one app and both the interface and the functionality are
>written together. the gui is not a wrapper.
>
>> >> You might start by giving me an example of a program
>> >> which runs under the old Mac op/sys and what you do/did to run it.
>> >
>> >double-click it.
>>
>> "double-click" what?
>
>the icon. it's a graphical interface, remember?
Duh! I don't think we need argue about the system GUI,
that of course must exist for GUI programs to run.
I am referring to the many programs which run under it; I gave
an example earlier. They are usually written before their GUI is,
but again the GUI coding may then be included in the code.
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