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 :-)
Regarding Hypercard, I regularly receive emails from lovers of
Hypercard who deplore its passing and just want its reincarnation.
They don't really want anything else, just a Hypercard with colour
that works on OS X.
They don't want Revolution, Supercard or anything else, just
Hypercard or an exact clone.
I know how they feel and just wonder how Apple were so short sighted.
By the way, I use RB to produce a Hypercard derivative called HyperNext.
HN is aimed at beginners and doesn't have the power of RB but can
still quickly make something that works.
HN takes many of its ideas from Hypercard but one of its best
features is RBscript although most users don't appreciate its potential.
The reason I still use RB is that it works, is cross-platform and has
something like RBscript.
Unfortunately I'm still using RB5.5.5 as the later versions all have
some issue which either can't be worked around or else perhaps I
don't fully understand the problem.
RB 2007 might work but I just haven't had time to try it yet.
I have cursed RB many times, particularly when a show-stopper occurs
and a lengthy work around is needed, But any dev system has some
issues, especially with ever changing operating systems. However, RB
does allow HN to work and to become better.
Regarding other languages, they are all special in some way and its
hard to understand why some of their proponents are hostile to other
languages.
I'm certainly looking forward to building HN in RB2007 soon.
Best regards
Malcolm
(TigaByte Software)
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