Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!jamesth
From: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: "Innovative software like Hypercard" [sic]
Keywords: Hypercard useless software white elephant
Message-ID: <55742@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 15:37:46 GMT
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Reply-To: jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <13997@unix.SRI.COM> ubi@ginger.UUCP (Ron Ueberschaer x4399) writes:
>I have mixed emotions about this argument.  On one hand, I have to
>agree with the original observation:  No one uses HyperCard.  It's one
>of those tools that are great fun to play with when you first get them,
>but don't hold up as being truly useful.

Sorry, but you are quite wrong.  To quote my friend, Charlie Faddis,
"James invented the stack that I earn my living with."  Charlie is
a consulting engineer with a family of five to support, who uses
a stack *every* working day to develop and test microprocessor
based process control devices.  It is a combination cross-assembler
for the Intel 8051 family of microprocessors and testing environment.
It is a huge improvement over traditional cross-assemblers.  It started
as a simple assembler/linker based on a somewhat clever approach to
writing an assembler in HC, and has evolved into an integrated
cross delelopment environment.  Need a new test?  Add a button.
Need to remember how to wire up the system?  Use the drawing tools
to put the diagram on a card in the stack.

Note that I'm not talking about a *toy* assembler.  It supports the
full machine with exactly Intel syntax, and doesn't assemble modules
that don't change, giving it speed similar to old fashioned assemblers.

Oh, and I wrote the prototype of the assembler, which worked and loaded
code in five hours.

James Thiele -- microsoft!jamesth