LiveCode has a new eye on the earth

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Feb 13 12:25:38 EST 2013


On 13.02.2013 at 10:24 Uhr +0000 Bernard Devlin apparently wrote:
>Critcising the aesthetics of programmes produced by RAD tools has often
>been a way in which "professional programmers" have rubbished the useful
>(yet unpolished) tools that literally ran many businesses.  The same thing
>happened with Lotus Notes.  It was an environment that permitted thousands
>of non-professional programmers (who had the essential knowledge of the
>business processes) to produce and continuously refine the programmes they
>needed to make money.
>

Not only professional programmers. Ugliness of many HyperCard-based 
programs supposedly contributed to HyperCard's demise. Steve Jobs had 
too high quality standards.

r




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