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VB was clearly influenced by Hypercard. Likewise HTML. In many ways (including performance) VB was a huge regression from Hypercard (I was working on a multimed
by Tloewald 13y ago
VB was clearly influenced by Hypercard. Likewise HTML. In many ways (including performance) VB was a huge regression from Hypercard (I was working on a multimedia project in VB3 in 1994 and a 25MHz 68040 running HyperCard simply blew away a 486DX66 with more of everything running VB3).
HyperCard was probably one of the most influential pieces of software ever written. It still has one direct clone ("Livecode") being sold commercially, and I believe Director (whose programming language started as an inferior clone of HyperTalk) is still being sold by Adobe.
It was also an incredibly stable programming environment. Back in an era when computers in general were as flaky as hell, you could work on it all day and experience nary a crash (and since it saved everything by default you tended not to lose anything even when it did crash).