Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote:
in the early '90s a magazine premiered called New Media -- anyone
here have the first two issues?
I might. I definitely remember the first year or two it sported the cool
square format before it became more mainstream. I think I still have the
first issue of
And more trivia:
Atkinson's original vision for HyperCard didn't include a scripting
language, an idea that was suggested by Dan Winkler during the
development cycle.
I found this program long ago on a bbs. It was called MacCard or flashcard
or something like that.
Buried in one of my 3000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And more trivia:
Atkinson's original vision for HyperCard didn't include a scripting
language, an idea that was suggested by Dan Winkler during the
development cycle.
I found this program long ago on a bbs. It was called MacCard or flashcard
or something like that.
Buried
Richard wrote:
On 20.05.2005 08:37:01 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And more trivia:
Got any? :)
None that I can think off... ;)
cheers
Xav
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Chipp Walters wrote:
Someone was going to a lot of trouble to make sure 'multimedia' was
the next big thing.
At least one of those someones was (gasp, cough, choke) Bill Gates.
Microsoft sponsored a really good tradeshow in San Jose called
InterMedia that I attended in 1993. It was
Kat wrote:
My theory all along has been that Microsoft liked CD-ROM so much because
it allowed them to deliver bloatware but then I'm just prejudiced.
PRE-judiced was something we used to do. But now that more than two
dozen governments around the world have found Microsoft guilty of the
When I finish an app, I like to spend some time re-coding the routines
singing the followoing mantra: can I do it in fewer lines?. I am very
proud of the latest incarnation of RevHTTPd, it's half the size of the
first one and with more features. It's not only the sheer size of the
binary. Its
Andre-
Friday, May 20, 2005, 9:32:49 AM, you wrote:
AG When I finish an app, I like to spend some time re-coding the routines
AG singing the followoing mantra: can I do it in fewer lines?. I am very
I'm constantly reengineering my old code, too, but I find that it
generally *grows* in size as I
for ;)
cheers
Xavier
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Subject: Re: [OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk
languages andsmalltalk?
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Richard-
Friday, May 20, 2005, 9:22:41 AM, you wrote:
RG That's another nice thing about being part of the over-40 crowd: when
RG you go around the block that many times you know that, thanks to Moore's
RG Law and market dynamics, computing is one of the few industries that
RG consistently
Mark Wieder wrote:
Richard-
Friday, May 20, 2005, 9:22:41 AM, you wrote:
RG That's another nice thing about being part of the over-40 crowd: when
RG you go around the block that many times you know that, thanks to Moore's
RG Law and market dynamics, computing is one of the few industries that
RG
On May 20, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
AG When I finish an app, I like to spend some time re-coding the
routines
AG singing the followoing mantra: can I do it in fewer lines?. I am
very
I'm constantly reengineering my old code, too, but I find that it
generally *grows* in size as I go
Mark Wieder wrote:
I'm constantly reengineering my old code, too, but I find that it
generally *grows* in size as I go back and add more comments. Trying
to do things in fewer lines can also sometimes lead to emphasizing
cuteness over readability.
Amen, Mark.
I also find I end up adding more error
OOPS, sorry, I meant to say:
My coding style favors readability and debugability over compactness and
speed, except where speed is a real issue, (as in imagedata functions),
then I'm all for it!
-Chipp
Chipp Walters wrote:
Mark Wieder wrote:
I'm constantly reengineering my old code, too, but I
Richard-
Friday, May 20, 2005, 11:07:43 AM, you wrote:
RG Less useful but no less entertaining:
RG http://despair.com/proc24x30pri.html
Thanks for that one. I liked the QT movie, too.
http://despair.com/happyproduct.html
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I have many Despair.com posters and postcards. My favorites are the
picture of a group of skydivers in formation with the caption:
Meetings None of us is as dumb as all of us, the penguin with the
caption: Limitations: Until you spread your wings, you have no idea
how far you can walk.
Dude is
to use Revolution
Subject: Re: [OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk languages
andsmalltalk?
As one of the Gray-Hairs around these parts -- and someone who has
authored books on both xTalks and Smalltalk as well as coding far too
many lines of both to be considered still sane -- I thought
Bill Atkinson, last I heard, was no longer doing tech stuff at all
but was focused on his rather considerable skills as a photographer.
(He's really good. Check out http://www.billatkinson.com)
Dan Winkler did some additional technology work for a few years. He
was involved in a project
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in any of
Hypercard's descendants?
Not directly, but there was a moment of widsom in which Silicon Beach's
Charlie Jackson (SB produced SuperCard) proposed to Apple's Jean Louis
Gassee that they establish a
Richard.
What a great trip down memory lane.
Thanks.
Dan
On May 19, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in
any of
Hypercard's descendants?
Not directly, but there was a moment of widsom in which Silicon
Richard Gaskin wrote:
One last bit of trivia:
Today the world's most popular multimedia authoring system is Flash, and
while we know it as a Macromedia product it was actually an acquisition.
Who originally produced it?
FutureSplash, a company owned by Charlie Jackson.
And in fact, FutureSplash
Heard back from Dan Winkler. He has looked at Rev and found it quite
positive.
He also reminded me of the company I couldn't think of before. It's
General Magic. A number of the HyperHeads were part of that aborted,
ahead-of-its-time effort. He says the Danger HipTop is a great
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