![]() ![]() In many cases, such efforts have benefited other developers as well (and again, the user is the big winner).Ĥ. In addition, developers like Logos, who made ever expanding libraries of texts a major focus of their software, have helped to persuade countless print publishers to make their copyrighted materials available in electronic format. ![]() There have been two prongs to this: the e-texting of numerous older, public domain works by countless volunteers have made a wealth of classic material available to all Bible software developers (and more importantly, to their users). While not a single event, I believe the proliferation of electronic texts of various kinds has been a significant aspect of the development of Bible software. It is only recently that many of these features and concepts have found their way into Windows software.ģ. While Windows developers were all trying to see who could build the biggest library of modules, Accordance was quietly pioneering features such as graphical search constructs (version 1.0), various methods of statistical analysis and graphical representations of search results (1.0), parallel passage databases (2.0), diagramming tools (3.0), and so on. I think Accordance has, like the Macintosh itself, had a long history of innovation which has helped to drive Bible software forward. It's difficult to overstate its impact on Biblical scholarship, preaching, and teaching.Ģ. I think the original GRAMCORD concept was perhaps the most pioneering feat in the history of Bible software. In addition, I have at various times helped out with interface design, marketing, customer relations, and technical support.īSR: When you look back, what would you identify as being the single greatest feat in the history of Bible software?ĭL: I see how this works! You want us to identify the "single greatest feat," but you'll only go so far as to think of "some" of the greatest! -) I think I'll do as you do and not as you say and just list a couple of events which I think are significant.ġ. My job is to take the electronic texts we receive from various publishers (Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, etc.) and convert them into Accordance modules. ![]() "This," I thought, "Is what I want to do with a computer." I subsequently bought a Mac, bought Accordance 1.0 not long after it was released, and eventually went to work for OakTree, where I've remained for about nine years now.īSR: What is your current role in the company?ĭL: OakTree Software is a small company, so we all wear a lot of different hats. A classmate of mine, who was pushing me to consider getting a Mac, dragged me to a demonstration of an early prototype of Accordance, and I was hooked. At that time, I was in my first year of seminary, and was contemplating the purchase of my first computer. That all changed when Accordance 1.0 was released in February, 1994.Īlthough I joined the staff of OakTree Software in 1995, my connection to Accordance goes back as far as 1992. The GRAMCORD Institute had pioneered the concepts of computer-assisted grammatical study more than a decade earlier, but at that time, Mac users had no way to access the tagged Greek and Hebrew texts. So Roy began work on a new program which would be able to search and analyze the grammatically-tagged original language texts distributed by The GRAMCORD Institute. While PerfectWord/MacBible did offer Greek and Hebrew texts for display and searching, it did not offer the kinds of grammatical search and analysis capabilities needed by scholars and pastors. PerfectWord was later bought by Zondervan Corp. Bible Software Review: By way of an introduction, please give us any personal information you'd like to share with our readers.īSR: When did your company start, and why did you feel the need to set this project off?ĭL: Roy Brown, OakTree Software's president and application developer, created one of the first Bible programs available for the Macintosh, known as PerfectWord, in 1988. ![]()
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