Re: Prograph (was Re: MacWorld part 2)

Peter T. Evensen Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:50:01 -0800

I developed 5 engines (21 titles) in Prograph CPX. I loved Prograph, although I was disappointed when they finally released it for Windows and CPX (the ABCs) didn't live up to the cross-platform promises (it took a lot of work to work around bugs on Windows). It seems their application classes were Mac-centric and so it was difficult to shoe-horn them onto the Window's API.

I was sad that Pictorius tried to make themselves into an internet company, rather than pursuing Prograph and making it a better cross-platform development environment.

I am surprised to see it reborn as Marten. Looking at the website, though, it appears that it is Mac only.

At 10:22 AM 1/15/2005, you wrote:

On Jan 14, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
As some of you may know, I wrote one of two books published on Prograph before that product/company essentially went belly-up. (Hmmm. I hope I don't have the decidedly unhelpful effect on *all* the companies whose products I write books about. heh heh)

My friend (like me) was a fairly ardent fan of Prograph and we were both sad to see it go away. It truly is the ONLY completely visual programming environment I've ever seen and although it takes a while to wrap your head around it, its power was truly amazing. And it really is fully object-oriented.
I paid the big bucks for Prograph. It had a name like Prograph CPX 1.0 or something. I figured since I liked LabVIEW and functional programming, that it would be great for me.

The problem was that it crashed every few minutes and didn't work in between. It had zillions of bugs and zero support. I threw it away. That was so frustrating since I wanted it to work. I imagine a lot of folks were cheated this way.

So, it wasn't you, Dan. The company cheated folks and forced them to turn the name into a curse word. They did it to themselves.
(I didn't see any OOP.)
Dar
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