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I have this book! I loved Hypercard and spend many hours making silly and functional programs with it. I wish that somehow it was continued and not sent out to

I have this book! I loved Hypercard and spend many hours making silly and functional programs with it. I wish that somehow it was continued and not sent out to the pasture at Claris.

protomyth 5y ago
In a lot of ways, my ideal product would be a HyperCard / Excel combo that could output Java (or some other source code).
- tomcam 5y ago
  Something close to that was tried in Microsoft when I was there 1996-2000. It was extraordinarily hard to keep the visual forms designer and the output code in sync, especially when users tried to edit the code.
  - protomyth 5y ago
    I don't think it needs to return trip for it to be useful. Most of the value is allowing programmers to get the business logic that expert users generate.
    - tomcam 5y ago
      It’s really, really hard to explain that to users when they see what looks to be editable serialized code for forms.
      - protomyth 5y ago
        I was thinking a file export, not something the user would deal with. They get their nice HyperTalk with Excel functions.