Perhaps:
1. HyperTalk is never converted from an interpreted language to a
compiled one - no one wants to commit the resources
2. Five different developers rewrite the HC engine to support five
different ways of adding color
3. Businesses refuse to touch HC because there are 20 different
versions (HC - Berkeley, HC - SD, etc.)
4. Of the 20 versions of HC, 15 are "vaporware"
5. HC spawns 30 incompatible clones
6. All of the clones combined have a 2% market share (compared to VB,
the "Standard RAD")
7. Since no one was making money on it, no "serious" development was
done for the last 19 years
Paul Looney
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From: David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 3:40 am
Subject: Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20
years ago?
How would the world of software languages that we know of now be
different?
Perhaps:
1. Visual Basic would not have had the success that it did as
companies re-hacked HyperTalk to fit their business needs
2. We'd have got colour and video and object orientation well ahead
of
the competition
3. MetaCard would have been born as an Open Source company based
around customising the engine for larger corporations
4. RunRev would have produced the RevIde and repackaged it for a new
market - without the same start-up costs
5. Others Galaxies would have been produced
6. We'd have got these benefits cheaper, they would have got more
customers
7. Businesses would be making money with the engine and there would
be
many many such businesses
Have some fun and picture it - dream or nightmare? It's a serious
question,
for those thinking of investing their skills.
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