David --

At 8:53 AM -0700 3/11/03, David Farber wrote:
>Alan -
>
>You wrote:
>>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.
>
>Would you mind elaborating on this a little bit? You seem to be 
>implying that there was something intrinsic to Hypercard that made 
>the 20x difference unavoidable.

Not at all. It took Bill Atkinson and a few people a few years to do 
Hypercard. It took many dozens to hundreds of people about as long to 
document it, package it, support it, etc. I think this is quite 
normal. E.g. Much of Squeak was done by 5 people in a few years and 
look how much work, how many books, etc., have already been expended 
to not yet even document it, let alone package it.

Cheers,

Alan

>
>Thanks,
>david
>
>--
>David Farber
>dfarber at numenor.com


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