Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!psuvax1!psuvm!nada.kth.se!ianf From: ianf@NADA.KTH.SE (Ian Feldman) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.literary,comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: nobel prize Message-ID: <2331@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 17 Nov 89 12:45:55 GMT References: Sender: Discussions about Literature Reply-To: Discussions about Literature Organization: Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 22 Approved: Since they are moderated Comments: To: bit-listserv-literary@uunet.uu.net In article Discussions about Literature writes: > > Who should get the Nobel Prize for Literature --- who is alive & > producing great work & has yet to receive the laurel? Actually I'd like to nominate Bill Atkinson, the author of Hypercard, Lisa Pascal, QuickDraw for the Macintosh a o. I cannot but marvel at the obvious elegance of the Hypercard. Its tightly coded stucture, unambigouous, consistent metaphors and the poetry of the built-in command language, the HyperTalk, is in a class of its own. I'm serious: anybody that comes up with a method to command a computer's attention using constructs like "slow fade to black" deserves to be taken seriously for the litterary author that he is. -- ---- ------ ianf@nada.kth.se/ @sekth.bitnet/ uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf ---- --