Foreword
Way back in 1991, I sat on a park bench in Trondheim, Norway, together with Haavard Nord. We were doing our non-military service together at the regional hospital there, and needed to develop software for the storage and analysis of ultrasound images. The hospital used all sorts of computers and wanted the system to work on Unix, Mac, and Windows. This was a huge challenge and we scanned the market for available class libraries that could help us. We were appalled by the quality of what we found. On that park bench we decided to come up with our own solution to the challenge.
We were young, ambitious, and naïve. Sick and tired of wasting our time finding out how to use non-intuitive tools and libraries, we set our sights on improving ...
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