Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsmtc1!dlw From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard: what's it really worth? Message-ID: <11540054@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 21:59:04 EST Article-I.D.: hpsmtc1.11540054 Posted: Sun Nov 29 21:59:04 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 06:50:54 EST References: <6956@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 17 So you hate HyperCard do you? Well fine, its free so just don't use it. I happen to love it and I use it Every Day. Quite frankly it offers me the fastest tool available to prototype User Interfaces for applications development. As to a real language being one that allows you to write a Flight Simulator?? Boy thats one application everyone needs! I guess you must be another person who invested in OWL's stock eh? Why are you so upset that Bill Atkinson wanted and made Hypercard free? Would you rather he took the approach of ParcPlace systems ($1000+ for SmallTalk 80) and insure that the product got into the hands of Big corporations and universities rather than be accessable to the general public at large? If you want to code in C, fine -- Lightspeed C is an excellent product and you can buy it for $150 or so, and write your Flight simulator which everyone will want to own, and make extensions to ;) Whew, I feel much better now...