On 2/29/2016 1:25 PM, William Prothero wrote:
By the way, I too have pondered the popularity that Hypercard was able to achieve and compared it to Livecode. Certainly, a subset of livecode and hypercard are pretty identical. So, why isn’t it easier to get excited about it?
HyperCard took off because it shipped free on every Mac. That's certainly the reason I started with it, because I never in a million years thought I'd like programming. But it was there on our new Mac so I started exploring. The language was easily grasped and there were dozens of examples to look at. I got hooked immediately.
If HC hadn't been there right in front of me I never would have touched it, no matter how many glowing reports I might have read about it elsewhere. I was positive that programming wasn't something I was suited for. I am also sure that's what happened with all the thousands of new HC users who never dreamed they could produce their own software.
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