RE: [Pythoncard-users] put on your marketing caps

> PythonCard brings visual software development on Open Source tools
> to the masses, picking up where Apple's immensely popular but
> now-abandoned HyperCard product left off. Written entirely in the
> widely used and respected object-oriented Python scripting language,
> PythonCard enables end users to create applications and interfaces in
> a style that is reminiscent of Microsoft Visual Basic without the
> baggage of over-complexity for non-programmers. It then enables the
> developer with some minimal amount of programming or scripting
> experience to give the user's designs life and power through Python
> scripting.

"software development on Open Source Tools"? How about "software development
with Open Source Tools" - I personally find (as might be suggested by the
wording) sitting on hammers a bit painful ;)

To me implying that PythonCard picks up where Hypercard left off suggests
that PythonCard does what Hypercard does and more so and it doesn't. Someone
downloading PythonCard expecting it to have similar functionality to
HyperCard is going to be very disappointed.

Hypercard isn't abandoned - Apple still sells it. - see
www.apple.com/hypercard.

How is it reminiscent of Visual Basic? Does PythonCard really want to
associate itself with VB? When I develop in VB, I either expect to use an
editor for this clunky language or I expect a design/script UI tool that has
multiple panes with a visual layout editor, lists of functions, attribute
lists, lists of available controls and tons of online badly done help etc.

Microsoft
Mediocre (darn, one letter short)

The user is not the developer? It takes a developer to give the user's
designs life and power?

Dave LeBlanc