Sjoerd Op 't Land wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Version 1.0 of the educational software I'm making (Dutch spelling) is
> complete now, and I'm going to a publisher. Before, I've had a talk with a
> critical person who had critical questions about the software. Mostly, he
> had questions about MetaCard. Could you please help me, because the
> publisher may pose this questions also?
>
> 1. What is MetaCard? Never heard of it, and now I have seen it, it looks
> like a macro language to me. I think it has too less possibilities for
> professional software, hasn't it?
>
> My opinion: MetaCard is a great Object Oriented tool in which you can
> program quite 'deep' things like working in the registry or writing to COM
> ports.
> My question: Are there examples of software made in MetaCard which were a
> success?
For my own, i use Metacard to build TCP/IP applications and databases
servers, just alike some others use IBM WebSphere, Versata, MS Visual
Interdev, Omnis Studio or Apple WebObjects to do this kind of job. You
can see one of the projects i'm working on, still under construction, at
<http://cyb.cndp.fr/>.
There is, over the world, only six softs able to produce, automatically
and 24 hours/day, crosswords girds for commercial publishing needs. One
of those tools, first developped in Hypertalk will be converted to MC in
the next months to be suitable on linux clustered servers.
>
> 2. In case that you have a accident, can someone else take over easily the
> development of the software? Is it possible to 'print' the program and it's
> cross references? How many MetaCard programmers are there (in the
> Netherlands)? Can he or she trust on support of the MetaCard company?
>
> My opinion: There are much HyperCard programmers in Holland, but...
> My question: Is there a printstack tool? Is there a list of MetaCard
> programmers over the world? How easy is it to jump from HyperCard to
> MetaCard?
The printstack tool is still avalaible and, if needed, it's very simple
to adapt the scripts to specific tasks. As an exemple, i use a SuperCard
stack to edit and print postscript libraries barcodes. The same and more
can be do using MC.
Ask Scott Raney.
Hypercard, Supercard or Metacard are not technically different tools. A
good XTalk developper will jump from one to the other in 15 days. If
Metacard is still the very best of them, it's probably because it's able
to get the best from unixes where macos stay a good but desktop
dedicaced operating system.
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers,
> Sjoerd Op 't Land
>
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Regards, Pierre Sahores
WEB, DB, B2B & ASP design.
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