Should I forget HC? Honestly?

[Richmond]

I learnt a lot from HyperCard in 1993 . . . when watching my 6 month 
year old son.

However, my son is now working his way towards his 27th birthday, and 
does not need
the sort of attention from me that he needed then.

LiveCode IS, to all intents and purposes, HyperCard, in much the same 
way as my son, Alexander
is to all intents and purposes the baby he was 26 years ago. However, 
LiveCode, like my son,
has got the odd extra skill it has acquired in those 26 years.

There is NO need to "make HC great again" because Kevin Miller and his 
band of very clever people
have already done that.

What 'facilitating Hypercard by means of an LC-app' means I just don't know.

If my son gets married and fathers a child, I may have to cope with 
"HyperCard" again,
but, as I have LiveCode I will gladly hand the grandchild over to my son 
having made the
culturally appropriate "oohs and aahs".

What possible advantage could there possibly be from reviving a 
hobby-horse (progenitor of the
bicycle that had no pedals) when one can pop down the road and buy a 
bicycle with upward of 15 gears,
a sprung saddle and a decent lamp on the front?

Someone, who has not sat down and thought things through carefully comes 
up with
a "HyperCard Revived" posting about once every 2 years . . .

I got out a machine I have that runs Hypercard and felt very, very sad 
running the thing as, frankly,
after about 18 years of exposure to LiveCode (that's about 3 times as 
long as my exposure to HyperCard),
HyperCard looked pathetic; and, with the vision of hindsight it is; 
while when it was "the thang" it was revolutionary.

Richmond.

On 26.01.19 9:22, Ingar Roggen via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi, all of you!
> Twice I have asked through this list for help to get an idea about how much it would cost «to make HC great again», that is, to facilitate its use by means of an LC-app. I may not succeed in getting a Norwegian sponsor, but again I might. But certainly not without an approximate suggestion of the price. My email at the University of Oslo is ingar.roggen at sosiologi.uio.no. Why not give it a try?
> Ingar
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