Bill Atkinson, Inventor or HyperCard, dies aged 74

[Jeff Reynolds]

Very sorry to hear that. HC turned a hobby and research aid in grad school into being the nucleus to bring together a number of hats into a career for 35 years. Certainly gave me a new and interesting path in life when I decided not to be a prof after post doc. I was able to use HC for some projects everyone said would require C programming and way more time and effort than it ended up taking with HC (PC side ended up that way though!). That then lead to MetaCard. 

All this stuff rests on Bill’s shoulders and neurons. Only met him once, but was a very sweet chap to me when he didn't have to be. Same sort of spirit bubbled out of HC and thus the community that formed around it and later MetaCard and LiveCode. Nice legacy.

Cheers

Jeff