Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread LiangTyan Fui
On 8/8/00 4:51 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Mark Talluto wrote: >> >>> Dear list >>> >>> Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a >>> competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of >>> Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateuri

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Mark Talluto wrote: > > > Dear list > > > > Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a > > competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of > > Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and > > offputting. If it weren't for my Hy

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Mark Talluto
> Dear list > > Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a > competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of > Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and > offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard experience I would quickly

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-07 Thread Geoff Canyon
Check out http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/index.htm Also, stick with it. _Everyone_ goes through the "What the heck??" phase when checking out MetaCard. It's a fact of life, and we've all learned to get past it. The development environment has good points to go along with the bad. Each of us

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread Jeff Reynolds
michael, I would have done the same if i had not just dived in and tried to make my own application first. i have had very bad luck with tutorials for the very reasons you outlined with metacard. stick with mc, if you need to create powerful apps, you can with mc. you can do anything and more

Re: Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread andu
> >Dear list > >Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a >competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of >Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and >offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard experience I would quickly w

Metacard kills new users

2000-08-06 Thread Michael J. Lew
Dear list Over this last weekend I downloaded both Metacard and RealBasic. As a competent Hypercard programmer, I would obviously prefer the XTalk of Metacard. However, the presentation of Metacard is amateurish and offputting. If it weren't for my Hypercard experience I would quickly write off M