>And then there's the question: why exactly is HyperCard worthy of >reimplementation, and what are the essential features? > >-- >Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org
When hypercard came out, it was an immediate hit with people who had never programmed before, to the astonishment of its creators. I don't think that anybody ever studied these new users of hypercard to find out what it was about this that made people find it 'easier to do' than, for instance, programming in Pascal. Was it the linking? if so, have wikis and the WWW taken over this particular niche? Was it allowing ordinals and cardinals in expressions? Was it easy access to a widget library? I don't know of any research that tried to answer the question 'why Hypercard?' only the odd bit of anectdotal reports. Perhaps the fact that we don't know the answer to your question is reason enough to reimplement it? Laura _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
