>Kevin Miller wrote:
>> http://www.zdjournals.com/sun/9912/sun99c2.htm
>
>Clayton E. Crooks II seems to know more about MetaCard than most of us.
>"built-in support for databases such as Sybase, Access, and Oracle"?!?
>"multimedia abilities comparable to products like ... Macromedia
>Director"?!? Why did't anybody tell me? "it flawlessly integrates all of
>the tools into one seamless development environment"?!? We should tell
>XWorlds, who are working so hard on an improved developer experience!
>
>"The extended commands will provide a more full-featured object-oriented
>programming environment, which will allow development of larger-scale
>applications."?!? Cool... either Clayton is a lurker on this list and
>takes any suggestion made for granted to be included in the very next
>release, or he may have talked to Scott who told him things he only
>tells the press, but not on this list (too secret!). "OODBMS features,
>such as multi-user access, version control, and distributed data
>management, are currently being designed as well."?!? Wow!!!
>
>Don't get me wrong, I really love to program in MetaCard and there are
>some very correct points in the article: "The MetaTalk language ... is
>the easiest, multipurpose scripting language that we've ever used"... me
>too! But this article sounds like an ad campain that is in parts very
>loosely tied to reality.
>
>If the things promised in the article are really coming within one year
>or so, then only terrible marketing could stop MetaCard from becoming
>one of the big players in IDE and scripting environments, and the others
>(Java, VisualBasic, Tcl, Perl, etc.) can only keep up due to better
>marketing (OpenSource is marketing with other means :-).
>
>
>Regards
> Rüdiger
I thought for a guy who probably doesn't use MC on a regular basis his
impression was quite accurate.
Regrds, Andu
