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.

Cheers,

Alan

At 11:06 AM -0300 3/11/03, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>On 11/03/03 10:19, "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
>And when we have a truly Hypercard compatible system, I think our 
>users base are ten times what is now.
>I beg you and others for give us this.
>
>Edgar


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