Sigh. I could not have imagined that a link without an offending word could be taken as an insult. Perhaps the lack on accompanying text contributed? Anyway, it just was not my day (and not just you).
To me, that article makes many points. I was thinking in terms of technology stagnation and particularly, essential complexity that the author stresses. That things don't keep getting much better after a point. I do not think that technology has gone backwards. Hyper card alternatives still exist. http://www.metacard.com/ They just aren't as popular anymore or obvious choices. Back then, there weren't that many alternatives. I could either program a GUI in C or to use Hypercard. The difference was stark, the choices were obvious and the market was focussed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
