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X Put Thing On Screen
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abstraction (capability, semantic) layer that calls libraries to simply use X to Put Thing On Screen
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which is what everyone actually wants, but has failed at for forever
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if i end up running into a brick wall with X, i may devise "Y" windowing, but i don't want to throw out 40 years of programming at first
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"I must stress this to listeners over and over. Today’s operating systems rule out interconnection between windows at the system level—only within a restricted “application” can such windows be interconnected, and only if you create a new set of windows internal to the application. Of course, one sneaky method is to seize the whole screen as a transparent canvas, but this still does not give access to the windows provided by the operating system.
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It is still hard for many people to understand that I mean actually showing visible connections between pages on the screen, and hard for them to imagine writing based on this capability, though it is the only kind of writing I wish to do. For instance, I would like to rewrite my autobiography into parallel, visibly connected pages, in case I have the time and tools to do so."
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-- Theodore Holm Nelson, Intertwingled
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License: see LICENSE
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