Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

[Stephen MacLean]

> On Aug 19, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Lynn Fredricks <lfredricks at proactive-intl.com> wrote:
> 
>> This kind of visual drag-and-drop programming UI has been 
>> done (and will continue to be done) for decades, and works 
>> pretty well for simple logic.
> 
> Flashback:
> http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.11/PrographCPXTutorial/ind
> ex.html
> 
> Remember this?
> 
> Very interesting concept at the time - to me it was much harder to swallow
> than the HC/Card/Stack/Talk model.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lynn Fredricks
> Paradigma Software
> http://www.paradigmasoft.com
> 
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> 

Wow, that is a flash back!

It truly was a visual language and once you got adjusted to it, it really was amazing. Debugging was was a walk through of not only the application flow, but the data and results as well. Another nice feature, which we seem to be getting in LCB, was direct access to the entire OS and frameworks. i.e. you had direct access to the Mac Toolbox and could use all those reference manuals that Apple put out to access all those features. Any custom stuff could be built directly in it, instead of externals, etc. I used it extensively to create some bleeding edge (at the time) stuff because of that access. Really did love it and to me was a joy to use.

iirc, they got big funding, but flamed out sometime after the switch from 68K cpu’s to PPC and the switch from their own compiler to CodeWarrior.


Best,

Steve MacLean