{"id":178,"date":"2003-01-19T23:51:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T04:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=178"},"modified":"2022-07-22T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:35:44","slug":"clarisworks_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/19\/clarisworks_history\/","title":{"rendered":"ClarisWorks History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hearn, co-author of ClarisWorks (and the excellent AppleWorks&nbsp;GS), has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss.ai.mit.edu\/~bob\/clarisworks.php\">a brief history<\/a> of the program. Although I preferred BeagleWorks to ClarisWorks 1.0, ClarisWorks 4 is one of my all-time favorite applications.<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.swiss.ai.mit.edu\/~bob\/clarisworks.php\">In its effort to produce slick, bug-free software, Claris was neglecting the hard reality that sheer number of features sells, independent of elegance of design.  Some products, such as MacWrite Pro, were delayed so long by stringent quality assurance requirements that they lost their effectiveness in the market.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"clarisworks_history-update-2020-08-17\">Update (2020-08-17): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24184697\">Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Update (2022-07-22): See this <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.csail.mit.edu\/mac\/users\/bob\/clarisworks.php\">updated link<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EggFreckles\/status\/1550493324888252418\">Thomas Brand<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Hearn, co-author of ClarisWorks (and the excellent AppleWorks&nbsp;GS), has written a brief history of the program. Although I preferred BeagleWorks to ClarisWorks 1.0, ClarisWorks 4 is one of my all-time favorite applications. In its effort to produce slick, bug-free software, Claris was neglecting the hard reality that sheer number of features sells, independent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-08-17T18:05:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"da4c6e46-39aa-4340-b8fc-d3a6451aa3fe","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-07-22T20:35:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2kxuRjmqQ0C4_NOmRRqj_g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[406,1029,1027,295,30,32],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appleii","tag-appleworks-gs","tag-clarisworks","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36568,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/36568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}