another article achieved...

[Roger Eller]

Indeed. All good points. I first discovered, and started working with
Metacard when my primary OS at work was SGI Irix. When we switched to
Windows NT, it had already become Revolution, so I moved forward with that.
It saddened me to see the *nix platforms go away, but there's only so much
a small team can do. Therefore, the importance of going open source. I sure
hope they make it.

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On Feb 23, 2013 3:15 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/23/2013 09:58 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
>
>> Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more
>> articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple
>> flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the
>> Apple fan-base?
>>
>
> As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started as
> a Windows
> equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform.
>
> Interestingly enough I notice on the Wikipedia stub for Metacard it is
> described as a "GUI Toolkit",
> a very interesting term I have not encountered before; AND perhaps one
> that RunRev should be
> promoting rather than 'programming language' as it makes a lot more sense
> - certainly it is one
> I shall use henceforth whenever people ask me about Livecode.
>
> This:  http://www.scdi.org/languages/**metacard/<http://www.scdi.org/languages/metacard/> is interesting in that it uses the phrase
>
> "development environment"  which also makes a lot more sense than
> 'programming language'.
>
> That does not seem to have been touched since 1997 and bears out what I
> said above about
> Metacard being, initially, non-Macintosh.
>
> "MetaCard is available for several operating systems including Windows
> 95/NT, Windows 3.1, Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX, Irix, HP UNIX and AIX."
>
> and if this were true then:
>
> "/MetaCard was the language of the month in November 1997/."
>
> Why cannot RunRev Livecode be the development environment of the year 2013?
>
> Especially if the Open Source initiative works!
>
> Actually . . . come to think of things . . . I wonder why RunRev don't
> contact people such as Vikki Dawson:
>
> http://designertoday.com/**reviews/review.archive/413/**metacard.aspx<http://designertoday.com/reviews/review.archive/413/metacard.aspx>
>
> who wrote so keenly about Metacard way-back-when, an micht dae again?
>
> Richmond.
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