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I'm doing a little survey.  If you have developed real products using
different window systems or toolkits, which window system do you think
is easiest for develpers to program and why (specifically)?  My metric
is total design and development time for similar applications.

Some possible reasons for one window being more productive are:

1.  more sophisticated window system development tools
2.  more constructs/abstractions in window system toolkit
3.  programming constructs are higher level
4.  good integration between high level and low level constructs
5.  good integration with programmer's development environment
6.  good documentation
7.  base operating system provides better development environment

The windows systems/toolkits in which I'm most interested are:

1.  Microsoft Windows
2.  Macintosh
3.  Motif for UNIX workstations
4.  NeXT

I'm interested in your experience either using the API to the above
through code or through some UI builder or UIMS, but I'm only
interested in real world products, not school projects for limited user
bases.

Remember, the metric is not "which is more fun", but is "which helped
you ship your product in the shortest amount of time".  Please be as
specific as you can and consider this to be an opportunity to suggest
improvements to your favorite window system.  Please, no flames or
speculations from people who have not developed products with more than
one window system.  Post your input here or e-mail to me.  I will
summarize any e-mail responses.  Thanks for your help.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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