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<div>Well, we don't want a "truly hypercard compatible
system". Hypercard was wonderful for what it got right and
slammed the door in your face with the many things that needed to be
better. It's an inspiration to do a 21st century version of what it
was trying to do, and to do it in a better way. BTW, there is very
little that Hypercard could do functionally that hasn't been in Squeak
for many years (much more extension of function). The trick is partly
to wind up with a simple powerful comprehensive model -- and this is
very difficult. I shall never forget the factor of 20 or so difference
in the resources needed to invent Hypercard, and what was required to
package it for its 4 million or so endusers. However, we are going to
take another run at the fence with a release of some quite new stuff
for people to pound on this summer.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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<div>At 11:06 AM -0300 3/11/03, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana">On 11/03/03 10:19,
"Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay@squeakland.org> wrote:</font><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Verdana" size="+1">Our previous plans to make
a kind of "superhypercard" and then get version 2 of etoys
from that much more comprehensive design did not work out at Disney,
and it wasn't until recently that we've been able to get that plan
going again. I think this is more like the system you want, and you'll
have a chance to try it out this summer.</font><br>
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And when we have a truly Hypercard compatible system, I think our
users base are ten times what is now.<br>
I beg you and others for give us this.<br>
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Edgar</font></blockquote>
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