Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ll-xn!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!lsrhs!schmidt From: schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard: what's it really worth? Message-ID: <635@lsrhs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 08:40:47 EST Article-I.D.: lsrhs.635 Posted: Thu Dec 3 08:40:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 22:00:22 EST References: <6956@ut-ngp.UUCP> <3410@husc6.harvard.edu> <2116@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <1002@cpocd2.UUCP> Reply-To: schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (Chris Schmidt) Organization: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA Lines: 23 Keywords: Hypercard smalltalk In article <1002@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes: >>>In article <6956@ut-ngp.UUCP> osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes: >>>>3. Hypertalk is somewhat overrated. True, it's "easier" than C or Pascal, but >>>> in no sense of the word is it a "programming language" in the first place. blah, blah, blah etc. Why does this happen? Here's a new piece of software which represents new thinking in computer use, marketing and existing customer-base support. Why has it garnered all these attacks? As with any piece of software, I would expect that those people who don't like it, won't use it. Why is it that so many folks are getting steamed over the enthusiasm that hypercard has generated? And the argument that says: "We can't let the world go crazy over something so flawed" just doesn't wash. Isn't clear by now that the new ideas embodied in hypercard will prove, eventually, helpful and that it's flaws will not corrupt, for evermore, the thinking and expectations of its users. This forum would be more useful if we didn't have to read all this stuff. There, my first and last contribution to this sort of discussion . . . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Schmidt/Lincoln-Sudbury High School/390 Lincoln Rd/Sudbury/Ma/01776 (617) 926-3242 -----> mit-caf!lsrhs!schmidt@eddie.mit.edu