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Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that by lispm on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:06PM (#40970573)
If you haven't seen it, the Interface Builder got it's inspiration from this Interface Builder written in Lisp: https://vimeo.com/62618532 The version in the video actually ran on a TI Explorer Lisp Machine NuBus-board in a Mac. There were other ports which als ran directly on the Mac in Lisp.

The thing was shown to Steve Jobs and he hired its main developer, Jean-Marie Hulot.

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Re:We need visual programming. No, not like that by lioeters on Monday July 15, 2024 @04:43PM (#40971318)
Ah yes, I remember the funny guy facing various dramatic software difficulties in the first part of the video.

This builder does look like a precursor to NeXT's and HyperCard too. I like that the "toolbox" appears next to the mouse, instead of having to go to the top menu or sidebar to select a new tool and back to position to use it. I missed that it ran on a Lisp processor, very cool!

And that the main developer later worked at NeXT and Apple.

> Jean-Marie Hullot authored important programs for the original Macintosh, NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X platforms. These include SOS Interface for the Mac, which later became Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP (1985), and later still evolved into an important part of Mac OS X.

> He also came up with the idea of the iPhone and led the iCal and iSync development teams for Mac OS X (2002).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Hullot

..Searching for "SOS Interface for the Mac", I guess it's Sophisticated Operating System, "the primary operating system of the Apple III computer" released in 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_SOS

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