On 12/1/11 4:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
What made Hypercard obsolete was time and the lack of certain things that became essential to modern apps or dev environments, like say real color support or database access, not to mention a robust graphics engine like Livecode has.
Steve Jobs killed it. The HC team was in the middle of writing version 3.0 which would have brought it up to date with modern apps of the day. It was QuickTime based, which gave it color and the graphics engine you mention. Other additions were planned. When the community heard it was to be discontinued, we mounted a protest. Steve Jobs had no idea what HC was or why we were concerned (Phil Schiller thought it was only good for making rolodexes,) and after receiving a bombardment of emails and faxes, Steve asked Kevin Calhoun for a demo so he could see what HC was. He was completely unfamiliar with it. KC called me afterward to talk about it. Steve didn't understand what HC was good for and went ahead with his plan. He disbanded the HC team and most of its engineers left the company.
I've heard there were other reasons as well, but none of them had to do with the program itself.
LiveCode has grown to be much more capable, as it turns out. I'm glad we ended up here.
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