Kevin Miller wrote:
> http://www.zdjournals.com/sun/9912/sun99c2.htm
Clayton E. Crooks II seems to know more about MetaCard than most of us.
"built-in support for databases such as Sybase, Access, and Oracle"?!?
"multimedia abilities comparable to products like ... Macromedia
Director"?!? Why did't anybody tell me? "it flawlessly integrates all of
the tools into one seamless development environment"?!? We should tell
XWorlds, who are working so hard on an improved developer experience!
"The extended commands will provide a more full-featured object-oriented
programming environment, which will allow development of larger-scale
applications."?!? Cool... either Clayton is a lurker on this list and
takes any suggestion made for granted to be included in the very next
release, or he may have talked to Scott who told him things he only
tells the press, but not on this list (too secret!). "OODBMS features,
such as multi-user access, version control, and distributed data
management, are currently being designed as well."?!? Wow!!!
Don't get me wrong, I really love to program in MetaCard and there are
some very correct points in the article: "The MetaTalk language ... is
the easiest, multipurpose scripting language that we've ever used"... me
too! But this article sounds like an ad campain that is in parts very
loosely tied to reality.
If the things promised in the article are really coming within one year
or so, then only terrible marketing could stop MetaCard from becoming
one of the big players in IDE and scripting environments, and the others
(Java, VisualBasic, Tcl, Perl, etc.) can only keep up due to better
marketing (OpenSource is marketing with other means :-).
Regards
R�diger
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