Don't take it the wrong way, I was just having one of those days (you
know, the kind of day where you try to convince a client MetaCard can
query MySQL). Pure frustration on my part, we all *seem* to adore
MetaCard, but try telling that to someone who only remembers pushing
A grc from point a to point B in Hypercard (but thinks Macromedia is
the way to go). Sure MetaCard does way more, and on more platforms,
but trying to express it and follow up your comments is much harder.
Then I saw the article, followed the link, saw "Hypercard" spelled
out and had a brain fart. So I figure, hell if all anyone can
remember is Hypercard than what better than to tell people it's alive
again.
I was just thinking of an alternate universe where it could happen....
PS: Ruslan, I apologize for any distress I may be causing you. I
just can't get my head around the fact that Hypercard has been dead
for so many years and people still talk about it like it's still a
viable option for the future.
>on 22/1/01 18:40, Simon Lord at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Hi Simon,
>
>> Huge article over at MacCentral for Valentina but it does not mention
>> or link to MetaCard. And it pains me to see Valentina's web site
>> actually spell out "Apple's Hypercard" which is dead from Apple's
>> point of view, but lump MetaCard into the word xTalk. We need to
>> support Scott and MetaCard by actually spelling this stuff out for
>> others and not let them guess at what xTalk is (I met an old
>> HyperCard programmer at Discreet last week, he had no idea what
>> MetaCard was):
>
>Simon, believe me we was not going offend Metacard in any way!
>Just visa versa, main developer of VXCMD -- Brian Yenni is MetaCard
>developer and we have made all our best to provide you great database engine
>as on MAC so on Windows.
>
>Robert, please check if we really have miss MetaCard in some places of our
>WEB pages, Okay ?
>
>
>> http://www.maccentral.com/news/0101/22.osxproducts.shtml
>>
>> It just talks about Java and Realbasic, why can't MetaCard get some
>> free mentions in these articles???
>
>Simon, actually 1.8.7 release have had 3 major features:
> -- introduces Java
> -- carbon version of V4RB
> -- carbon ver of VAPP.
>
>if you want you can find in archive release 1.8.6 or 1.8.5 which was WHOLE
>about VXCMD.
>
>I must say that MacDev even did not want send it out, because they did say
>that XCMD is old ant not modern. So I argument that VXCMD can be used as in
>old xCards (HC, SC) so in today's product MetaCard, also in Fronteir and
>probably in MacPerl.
>
>
>> You now, ironically, I think that MetaCard sales would probably
>> rocket if Scott got the rights to name MetaCard "HyperCard". Maybe
>> MC should do an IPO, the users buy stock, the money is used to buy
>> HyperCard from Apple - tell the world its alive again (but it's
>> really MetaCard), and watch the user base grow.
>>
>> Just thinking out loud.
>> --
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
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>
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>Ruslan Zasukhin
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