General Magic's Magic Cap (News & Views, February) is hardly a "radical departure" from other point-and-click GUIs, much less original. The Home Desk by Russel Lyon, a launching pad from HyperCard to other applications, looks quite similar.
Annemarie Timmerman
Pittsburgh, PA
You aren't the only one to notice the visual similarity between General Magic's Magic Cap and Apple's HyperCard. We noticed it, too, as did Andy Herzfeld and Bill Atkinson, early Mac and HyperCard pioneers who were among the founders of General Magic and are now developers of Magic Cap. But Magic Cap is original in its elimination of the distinction (central to most other operating systems) among files, applications, and objects.--Andy Reinhardt and Tom Halfhill
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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Magic Cap: Radical or What?
