Where does survive the inventive user ?

[Robert Brenstein]

On 28.07.2011 at 15:50 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
>I don't agree that Hypercard didn't work. It worked amazingly! Just 
>not as a mainstream development environment, but it was never 
>marketed or presented as such. A lot of people wrote Xcmd's for it. 
>One guy wrote an Xcmd that allowed you to access a dBase database 
>file and read and write to it. It wasn't very good though, very 
>buggy, but the concept was sound.
>

If I recall, HyperCard was called an "erector set" for Mac users, not 
necessarily programmers, and indeed used mostly by non-professional 
programmers. There was also an Xcmd for Valentina -- yes, I started 
using Valentina database with HyperCard -- and it worked really well 
but Valentina was not network based then.

Robert