Hmmm...

[Richmond]

On 31/10/14 22:03, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Anyone else stumble across this recent discussion looking for 
> something akin to "The HyperCard Legacy"?
>
> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538408>
>
> Nice to see some LiveCode comments there.
>

It seems to me that that discussion lacks focus.

Surely an question related to the "HyperCard legacy" (which is a fairly 
daft phrase anyway)
should be asking something like this:

Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was 
killed off?

And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived 
things (SERF ???), and
many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard), and one 
managing about 6 platforms
at present (LiveCode).

All those comments about COBOL and AppleScript are, frankly beside the 
point.

The way the discussion goes is rather like answering a question about 
"The Great Ape legacy"
by talking about dolphins, pigs and lemmings rather than bonobos and humans.

Richmond.