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From: Pete M. <jo...@ma...> - 2002-01-15 21:06:52
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A Pythoncard potentially like a terminal emulator? Does it have a single, private SERVER version for pycardinates of soda to use? Or is it free? On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 08:27 PM, pythoncard-users- re...@li... wrote: > Send Pythoncard-users mailing list submissions to > pyt...@li... > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pyt...@li... > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pyt...@li... > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Pythoncard-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: possible project names (Magnus Lie Hetland) > 2. RE: put on your marketing caps (David LeBlanc) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:26:45 +0100 > From: Magnus Lie Hetland <ma...@he...> > To: pyt...@li... > Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] possible project names > > David LeBlanc <wh...@oz...>: >> >> Zotz! the mayan word for vampire! ^^V^^ >> >> PyFrame >> >> PythonFrame >> >> Dave LeBlanc > > Let me get this straight: You are proposing "Dave LeBlanc" as a new > name for PythonCard? <wink> > >> (PyCard<tm> is a trademark of David LeBlanc, all rights reserved.) > > How did you get this TradeMark -- by claiming it on this mailing list? > > -- > Magnus Lie Hetland The Anygui Project > http://hetland.org http://anygui.org > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > From: "David LeBlanc" <wh...@oz...> > To: "pythoncard-Users" <pyt...@li...> > Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] put on your marketing caps > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:49:45 -0800 > >> 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 > > > > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Pythoncard-users mailing list > Pyt...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pythoncard-users > > > End of Pythoncard-users Digest |