HyperCard finally put to rest..

[Jim Witte]

> If this is how Apple retires a product like HyperCard they missed a 
> golden opportunity.  Rather than slinking away into the night they 
> could have turned it into an opportunity to endorse a logical 
> successor.

   Here, here.  Remember what Amelio supposedly implied - that if Apple 
hasn't dropped HC, that the WWW today would be based on HC..  I myself 
would have preferred WWW being based on a combination on HC and 
NewtonScript/NewtonBooks, but that's the past [or an alternate 
universe, if you believe the Everett interpretation of QM ;-)

   IMO, Apple should have implemented HC directly into the OS, with 
application control support built in.  If Apple had done this, they 
would have had "Desktop Programming" (something even simpler than 
Applescript Studio, which requires xCode after all - it isn't 
integrated into the Finder), Apple Events, QuicKeys-like functionality, 
and God-knows what else, *years* before now, and years before MS even 
had any idea close (they don't now though they *might* for Longhorn..).

   Oh, the chances Apple had to "rule the computing world"..

> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation

Jim Witte