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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
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Posted: Sun Nov 29 21:59:04 1987
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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...