Dec 86 Letters
Volume Number: 2
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: Letters
Response to Question on Neon
Chris Noe
Kriya Systems
Yes, Neon excels at prototyping! The Forth "environment" is natural for
incremental function construction, while providing MacApp-like support long before
MacApp was ever heard of. The object-oriented approach is what the Mac is all about.
Pierre has come across a persistent problem with Neon version 1.5: if you have
any material on the Clipboard when starting Neon from the Finder, it will produce a
bomb box. This happens because the nucleus and dictionary are kept as separate pieces,
and must be "docked" at an exact offset. Having anything on the Clipboard wedges a