What Bob said. Tim
On Jul 28, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I don't agree that Hypercard didn't work. It worked amazingly! Just not as a > mainstream development environment, but it was never marketed or presented as > such. A lot of people wrote Xcmd's for it. One guy wrote an Xcmd that allowed > you to access a dBase database file and read and write to it. It wasn't very > good though, very buggy, but the concept was sound. > > I think Hypercard happened too early, and lacked so many things for so long > that people eventually went elsewhere. It took them forever to include color > support, and then it wasn't very good, and Apple had already been trying to > dump it for some time. It was a half hearted effort on Apple's part that > really spelled the doom of Hypercard, and who can blame them? It wasn't > exactly a profit center! > > Bob _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
