programmers DO NOT want to see this technology accessible to
run-of-the-mill society, and probably for many valid and invalid
reasons. HyperCard made the technology insanely accessible, and
programmers will never let that happen ever again.
Oh bollocks!
this makes about as much sense as "The Inmates are Running the
Asylum" which is the only book I've bought which I've ever thrown
across the room in disgust.
Programmers didn't kill Hypercard. Apple management did, partly to
appease some multimedia authoring companies.
A lot of people have tried hard to keep alternatives alive & one of
RS's competitors built up a pretty good busines doing just that
(Runtime Revolution).
There are a lot of companies out there developing tools and promoting
methodologies to try to make programming as "factory-like" as
possible, hence the rise of J2EE and porting of jobs overseas.
These decisions are certainly not made by "programmers".
"Programmers" don't make the decisions as to which sorts of
technology to fund on computers, be those decisions made inside
Apple, Microsoft or third parties!
arrrgggghh
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