Re. PythonCard - was Re: Event-driven GUIs ...

[Spicklemire, Jerry]

Hi Roman, Neil, et. al.,

Neil suggested:

"However, the market, which was given several HyperCard like products to
choose from, has decided against this form of development environment."

to which Roman replied:

"The market ways are unpredictable, because decisions are made not on the
basis of technical merits but with some strange reasoning behind."


Just my $.02 about "the market" where Open Source and FREE software 
is concerned. There is actually something of a parallel universe 
phenomenon at work, an inevitable side effect of the Web and it's 
predecessors. Python is a great example of a tool that is virtually 
invisible to "the market", but which has been thriving nonetheless. 
Think Linux, prior to about 1997. 

As many Java and C++ refugees frequenting these lists can attest, 
"the market" no longer has the last word. We're witnessing the 
birth of a "paramarket". Python has risen on its merit entirely 
independent of "conventional wisdom", "market forces", "public 
relations", "strategic imperative", and other counterproductive 
distractions.

So, as for Python Card- Go For It! If HyperCard faded due to 
"extenuating circumstances", perhaps a comeback is in order.

Later,
Jerry S.