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There was a time when NeXT ran an ad noting that there would be 10 great innovations which would change computing in the next decade, noting that NeXTstep embodied 7 of them, and provided one w/ the developer tools to make the other 3 --- those developer tools which NeXT used to sell for $4,995 / seat are now freely available to all users of Mac OS X.
Glenn Reid was able to use NeXTstep to develop single-handedly PasteUp.app, a page layout application which competed w/ the contemporaneous Quark XPress and Aldus PageMaker.
John Carmack found NeXTstep the perfect tool for developing a first person shooter game called ``Doom''
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a protocol named http, and a browser / editor application called worldwideweb.app on NeXTstep
There're a number of bitmap editors for Mac OS X which are essentially wrappers around Mac OS X's CoreImage object which is the kind of leverage which object-oriented-development affords.
William
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