RE: Death of HyperCard

2001-04-03 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Death of HyperCard

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
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

Re: Death of HyperCard

2001-03-31 Thread Phil Davis
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