There are currently two genres in interface design: graphical user interfaces and command line interfaces. Neither is exemplary. GUIs are slow to use and CLIs are hard to learn. THE synthesizes the best parts of these two ideas into a framework that creates an interface which is both easy to learn and efficient to use. To anyone watching, it seems like magic. To a user, it becomes indispensable. Basically the idea here is that you design a GUI in which UNIX style "do one thing, do it well" utilities could be plugged in to offer particular capabilities instead of having all of these separate monolithic applications like spreadsheets or word processors where the world has to be reinvented every time. The way spell checking works in the Mac is that its offered at the OS level, and every application gets it everywhere as a virtue of running on the OS, instead of having to have each application implement its own spell checking system. Now imagine taking that concept to a deeper level. Instead of that being on the periphery, for little things like spell check, make it the heart, for big things like browsers or editors or viewers... What COM would be if it didn't suck. Crafting a Revolution with the Brother of the Macintosh | 
