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(C)1997 Andrew C. Stone. All rights reserved.
Leveraging the power of Rhapsody is your key to building cool apps quickly. If I asked you "How many lines of code would you have to write to implement a word procesor that reads/writes rich text files (including full support for graphics of EPS, TIFF, JPEG, PICT, GIF, etc type), full font support, full rulers with tabs and hanging indents, full support for color, printing, faxing and saving as PS with embedded fonts," what would you say?
But wait, before you answer, that's not all (can you hear the Ginzu knife salesman yet?)... "What if it also had ligatures, kerning, superscripting, justification, underlining, ability to drag out graphics, copy & paste of contents and copy and paste of font styles? Don't answer yet, because it will also run on Windows95 and Windows NT, and has a builtin spell checker."
If I said 13 lines of code and that you'll be done in 20 minutes, would you believe it? This is why I quit developing on the Mac in 1989 when I saw my first NeXT demo, and why I'm happy as heck to be developing on a Mac in 1997!
The week before MacWorld Boston 97, the Rhapsody Group at Apple invited several key OpenStep developers out to Cupertino to port their wares to Rhapsody running on the PowerPC. It was a great privilege to be included in this 3 day Kitchen - a MacHack with the Apple engineers dropping in and helping us at all hours. And, as promised, Create compiled, and it "just worked".
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