re: Hypercard (was Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps)
re: Hypercard (was Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps)
- Subject: re: Hypercard (was Re: Calling OSX AppleScript from Classic Apps)
- From: Charles Arthur <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 14:52:30 +0100
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 06:57:43 -0400 Gary Lists <email@hidden> wrote:
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Even if it is no longer developed, I still don't quite understand the lowly
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status that even Mac users seem to associate with HC. The recent suggestion
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I made that HC would be a wonderful starting point for the 11 year old did
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not even seem to sink in. Tragic oversight for the 11 year old, who could
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make a zippy multi-media stack in just a few hours with his dad. (Steve C.,
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are you reading along at home? Don't force COBOL on the kid! ;)
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Our school's 5th graders made a "This is Me" stack, writing their own
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scripts and everything, in just a few class sessions. Some had bone joint
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animations, some had grandmothers singing old family lullaby's, some had
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their kid sister's funny drawings. Now THAT is using a computer to do
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something. That is HyperCard. "Hello World!", be damned. :)
Time for someone to evangelise that Apple make HyperCard open-source. After
all, if the current OS can be (sort of, at some levels) OSS, then why the
hell not with an ancient and now apparently of-no-commercial-value program?
GPL the damn thing, or use Apple's Reality Distortion version of the GPL,
and get it out there. I've never used it but hey, good code shouldn't be
let to die.
Charles
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