Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 11/30/09 7:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>
> Loyalty aside, IMO the entire Hypercard comparison and reflection needs to
> end and go away.  Revolution is not Hypercard, and I don't see how comparing
> Rev to a dead product invented 20+ years ago serves either the product or
> its potential users.  I for one would like to see 2010 begin an era where
> all Hypercard comparisons are removed.  Rev has been around for years now --
> I think it's quite capable of standing on its own, without the crutch of a
> bygone development tool to prop it up.
>
>    

This is about the only valuable point made in this discussion. I am not
my grandfather; I do not all of his strengths, not all of his short-comings;
his memory is very precious to me, but I do not seek to emulate him.