As a former HyperCard advocate, I have to say that I agree that making fun
of HyperCard users is lame. Yes MetaCard blows HyperCard away, but at 10
times the price. We need to remember that MetaCard is not priced for
beginner programmers and hobbyists. It's priced for pros. If HyperCard
could do what MetaCard could do, I never would have left.
We should morn the death of HyperCard also, because it will be one less
xtalk product out there, and I think you all know how hard it is right now
talking clients into an xtalk solution... In a small way, the death of
HyperCard makes it just a little harder to talk clients into using MetaCard.
This is utter nonsense, of course, because there's no logic involved, but
when has logic ever been a huge factor in technology? What on earth made
people choose Windows 3.1 over the Mac? (For that matter, Windows Me over
OS 9, but that's another story...)
So let's all lay off the HyperCard folks. Many of us here may look down on
HyperCard, but somewhere there may be a person who graduated from MetaCard
to C++ who is laughing at us. And that's not right either.
:)
Richard MacLemale
Instructional Technology Specialist
James W. Mitchell High School
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