Re:Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum
by mikelevins on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:09AM
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Well, but you initially said that HyperCard "had to die", presumably because it was user-programmable. You seem to be implying that Apple had a conscious policy of opposing user programming.
That definitely was not the case at the time HyperCard was being developed. I know because I was there. I even worked on the HyperCard team for a while.
HyperCard's troubles had nothing to do with an Apple policy against user programmability, and everything to do with the fact that management couldn't figure out how to make it into a product that paid for itself.
If you want to argue that Apple has a policy against user programming now, well, maybe they do. I don't know. The last time I worked there was in the 1990s. But they didn't have any such policy when HyperCard was being shipped.
That definitely was not the case at the time HyperCard was being developed. I know because I was there. I even worked on the HyperCard team for a while.
HyperCard's troubles had nothing to do with an Apple policy against user programmability, and everything to do with the fact that management couldn't figure out how to make it into a product that paid for itself.
If you want to argue that Apple has a policy against user programming now, well, maybe they do. I don't know. The last time I worked there was in the 1990s. But they didn't have any such policy when HyperCard was being shipped.