Suggestion to MetaCard Corporation:
What about creating a watered down version of mc with no native color
support and crappy use of images. No graphics, just drawing tools and less
types of buttons. No scrollbar. No HTMLtext. Perhaps not let stacks work
cross platform? Perhaps not even offer
Robert Brenstein wrote:
While it's scary that Apple still doesn't recognize the strategic value of
supporting a 4GL for its OS (Microsoft figured this out long ago, ironically
inspired by HyperCard when they made VB -- which was prototyped in SuperCard
on a Mac), at least the language lives
To me, "insanely great" is the appropriate way to describe the
Hypercard experience and vision. After a dozen years of mainframe
development, I spent a year in the late 80's being retrained in
software development - this time with the human condition, not the
computer configuration, as the