> I think most of us have gotten over it by now... *grin*. > But, there are still some folks around who want to revive it, > even though SuperCard and Revolution are still around. > > The greatest thing about HyperCard was that it was > approachable by the non-geek. I work in education, and have > for the majority of my professional life. Teachers don't > generally have the time to learn a large, complicated > language and IDE. HyperCard let you drag some pieces > together and MAKE A THING THAT WORKED! Of course, those of > us who are geek-enabled could build pieces that would help in > that effort. Because it was free (for most of its lifetime) > people didn't have trouble sharing their solutions.
I totally agree - that and later the first inklings of Applescript. Years ago I had to come up with some custom, internal solutions to support the console game oriented business I had in the early 90's. Free didn't make any difference to me - I paid for the packaged version and later bought SuperCard when they had a cross-grade. It was just so massively productive at the time. Most 'cards have not fared well, though Revolution is doing just fine and becoming what xTalk should be. REALbasic stepped in at just the right time and I believe a great number of HyperCard users happily jumped to RB - even with it being an almost entirely different sort of product. In the end though...I have to love all of them. Valentina has great connectivity/solutions with Director, RB, Revolution, Cocoa, C++ (xCode/MS Visual), any COM lovin' environment, .net PHP and....others coming :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software, Inc Joining Worlds of Information Deploy True Client-Server Database Solutions Royalty Free with Valentina Developer Network http://www.paradigmasoft.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
