🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1989Aug16.175351.24310@sj.ate.slb.com> enk@slcs.slb.com (Edan Kabatchnik) writes:
>     Granted, (parts of) UNIX should be done away with.  But, there is a
>superior form to the main event loop: callbacks (found in X and Xerox
>Artificial Intelligence Workstations from which the Macintosh developed its
>user interface.)  Instead of having to dispatch on every possible event in the
>main event loop, one establishes a hook that is automatically called when an
>event takes place.

This is how the Presentation Manager handles events (messages, in
PMSpeek), and it makes dealing with the event driven model much
cleaner, in my opinion.  Dispatching becomes a matter of merely
writing your message handling functions, marking them as being
exported so that they can be called from the PM DLLs, and then
forgetting about them.

I really think it's time for the Mac programming model to be updated.
That's probably unreasonable, considering the amount of code that would
undoubtedly cease functioning, but it would sure make me happy!