OT: Priorities (was: Re: Stack with the same name loop)

[Paul McClernan]

OK, well sorry I guess. I me be slightly obsessed with the history lately,
and since this was already an off-topic thread, I felt a need to inject
some accurate (as accurate as I can gather anyway) history.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 6:05 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I don't disagree but the point I was addressing was why Hypercard was
> abandoned, and how this related to the recent changes in RunRev pricing
> policy.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Oct 25, 2021, at 12:52 , Paul McClernan via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:18 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> > <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Or the lesson may be that when a product is not commercially produced,
> there is no incentive to keep it updated and improve it. The lesson may be
> that a free mainstream product is an eventually doomed product.
> >>
> >> Bob S
> >
> > Hypercard was commercially produced and updated in the 1990s. 1998 was
> > the last update (2.4.1), at the time Apple was planning to integrate
> > HC 3.0 on a system level as part of QuickTime 3. HC was still usable
> > via "Classic" mode in Mac OSX and available for purchase from Apple
> > for $49 until 2004. By 2004 there were a handful of clones available
> > all of which had more modern features than HyperCard, including
> > SuperCard (which is still available, but is apparently chained to
> > Apple's now defunct Carbon API) and MetaCard. Coincidentally (or not?)
> > I've gathered that was around the same time that RunRev came to be and
> > acquired the MetaCard engine(s). If you consider, which I do,
> > AppleScript as a HyperCard cousin of sorts, then HC is still, at least
> > residually, ingrained into current versions of macOS. Coupled with
> > XCode's interface builder and AppleScript Objective C (ASObjC), or
> > not, you can build native mac apps with it. As we are here, people
> > still fairly frequently bring up HyperCard, a software package
> > introduced 34 years ago, was available for 17 years, and spurred a
> > bunch of clones! Pretty darn good for a doomed, free (and then cheap),
> > mainstream product, IMO.
> >
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