Index: doc/next-migration.txt =================================================================== diff -u -r3df933477f01d26d32220be5a1c87bfc0c5b7685 -r39306d4d36096f20dba3262638e2a87f04e90111 --- doc/next-migration.txt (.../next-migration.txt) (revision 3df933477f01d26d32220be5a1c87bfc0c5b7685) +++ doc/next-migration.txt (.../next-migration.txt) (revision 39306d4d36096f20dba3262638e2a87f04e90111) @@ -19,9 +19,16 @@ The Next Scripting Language (NX) is a successor of XOTcl 1 and is based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing -several hundert thousand lines of code. The overall goal is to -improve the maintainability and stability of large projects, where -many developers are involved. +several hundert thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first +language designed to provide language support for design patterns, the +focus of the Next Scripting Framework and NX are on combining this +with Language Oriented Programming. In many respects, NX was designed +to ease the learning of the language by novices (by using a more +mainstream terminology, higher orthogonality of the methods, less +predefined methods), to improve maintainability (remove sources of +common errors) and to encourage developer to write better structured +programs (to provide interfaces) especially for large projects, where +many developers are involved. The Next Scripting Language is based on the Next Scripting Framework which was developed based on the notion of language oriented