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Sweet, R.E., "The Mesa programming environment", SIGPLAN, 20, 7, pp. 216-229, July 1985. Google
217 ;;Quote: Mesa programmers do most of their development inside the world-swap debugger
218 ;;Quote: users should never be forced to interact with only one tool
218 ;;Quote: Mesa tools should receive requests from the user interface instead of defining the user interface
218 ;;Quote: Mesa tools should not make assumptions about the size and position of its windows
218 ;;Quote: law of least astonishment: Mesa's user interface should create a consistent user illusion which allows correct predictions for using new tools
218 ;;Quote: can emulate a middle mouse button by chording both buttons of a two button mouse
219 ;;Quote: a window may have overlapping subwindows; subwindows clipped to their parent's dimensions
219 ;;Quote: Mesa's user interface Tajo allows programs to register adjust, wakeup, and sleep procedures with a window
219 ;;Quote: a form subwindow is used for interaction with a tool: fields, choices (includes menus), and buttons
220 ;;Quote: when selecting with a mouse, track the selection on button down, and commit on button up
220+;;Quote: select with point and adjust mouse buttons; point selects characters, words, lines while adjust changes a selection
227 ;;Quote: most abstractions in XDE were objects represented by a record with procedure variables to implement its operations
227 ;;Quote: a private procedure for a procedure variable may call standard procedures; used for extensions and experimentation
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