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CREATED BY man-uel • LAST EDITED BY man-uel 7283 days AGO

c'mon, you can't compare frontier with a scripting language. that would be like comparing emacs with a text editor. yes you can do text editing in emacs, but its the environment aspect that matters. likewise, you can script in frontier, but actually frontier is a tool to think in, and to work in, totally, and it is an interesting tool, and has inspired many people, and has many fans. if that isn't success i don't know what is.

i have worked in frontier for years, and have used many tools since then, but frontier is still in the back of my mind at all times. the outliner, the scripting system, the database, all that you can't get anywhere else. if you haven't been a full-time frontier user you just can't judge it, but if you have been, you know that it was cutting-edge when it came out, and still is in many aspects.

i look forward to it being open source, and i know for sure that there will be a community of users which will happily hack away on it.

as to being late---he invented weblogging, right? :)