On 31/10/14 22:03, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Anyone else stumble across this recent discussion looking for
something akin to "The HyperCard Legacy"?
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538408>
Nice to see some LiveCode comments there.
It seems to me that that discussion lacks focus.
Surely an question related to the "HyperCard legacy" (which is a fairly
daft phrase anyway)
should be asking something like this:
Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was
killed off?
And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived
things (SERF ???), and
many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard), and one
managing about 6 platforms
at present (LiveCode).
All those comments about COBOL and AppleScript are, frankly beside the
point.
The way the discussion goes is rather like answering a question about
"The Great Ape legacy"
by talking about dolphins, pigs and lemmings rather than bonobos and humans.
Richmond.
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