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Hypercard seems rather reminiscent of VisualBasic to me, so I can understand its popularity. The difference seems that Microsoft embraced its quirks and shifted
by cmroanirgo 7y ago
Hypercard seems rather reminiscent of VisualBasic to me, so I can understand its popularity. The difference seems that Microsoft embraced its quirks and shifted it into several areas (VBA for the office product, and perhaps VBScript for IE). VB became vb.net which was succeeded by c#, as the language (vb/c# and others) became decoupled from the development environment.
The main modern difference between ye-olde hypercard and vb, is that the whole ecosystem was a monolith, whereas now it's disconnected.
- tambourine_man 7y ago>Hypercard seems rather reminiscent of VisualBasic… Hypercard predates VisualBasic by many years
- cmroanirgo 7y agoGreat correction, thanks! I actually meant that it reminded me of ye olde-VB (because it's ancient in its own right).
- kls 7y agoI would say it was closer to access and access forms than to VB. It was more UI centric where you just added snippets of scripts for button clicks and other actions. Access forms where like this but had wiring to the Access Database that was the real difference between the two. Hypercard was UI focused and access was data focused but both had the concept of layout the form and add snippets of glue. I would put Macromedia Director in this class of applications as well.