Re: HyperCard
Re: HyperCard
- Subject: Re: HyperCard
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 08:35:43 -0700
At 7:27 AM -0400 5/7/02, Paul Skinner wrote:
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I always feel like a teenager hearing his dad rave on and on about how albums were SO much better than 'all this newfangled stuff' when I hear someone here championing HyperCard. And I'm getting old!
>
So, can someone educate me as to why it was (and I'm sure it still is ;) SO great? Do it's variables hold bigger cover art?
No, double albums made great trays. ;)
There are two things that really made HyperCard better than any replacements.
1) A full version shipped on every Macintosh.
2) It was a database married to a runtime and visual editor, with a mildly extensible readable scripting language.
Given these aspects, everyone got to use HyperCard. For real work. I'm still using it. Given Steve's attitude regarding Apple applications these days, I'm sort of surprised we haven't got it yet. I keep hoping that's what Kevin Calhoun's working on these days in secret at Apple.
One of the things that has distinguished Macintosh applications is the combination of edit and run. MPW did it. HyperCard did it. FileMaker does it. Visual C++ even has it these days. (Hmm, I wonder what the first app to combine edit and run was?)
Regardless, HyperCard holds lots of data here, in smaller disk space than FileMaker, with more viewing capabilities (because I've written a lot of stacks over the years).
Some day when I get time, I'm going to check out pythonCard.
http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/
It seems they have the right attitude, and I've been interested in learning python, just in case I get attacked by snakes, so I could do a Picard on them.
Jon
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