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Subject: Re: "Innovative software like Hypercard" [sic]
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In article <33543@ut-emx.UUCP>, awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes...
> 
>I'm sure HyperCard has value, but I'm not so sure the value is to the end-user.
>Most people I know who have Macs don't use HyperCard for much of anything.
>The advantage of HyperCard is in development, and I have yet to see how that
>advantage has passed on to end users.  Possibly in the number of products 
>available - except that many of those are HyperCard devlopment aids.

Hypercard is the most useful program (except for word processor) that I use on
a computer.  I have written my own stack to perform configuration control
activities on a major sofware development effort.  I use this stack to keep
track of what stage an program is in, who is doing what to a program, are there
any problems reported with a program, does a change require documentation
revision, and to keep history on changes made to any program (of which there are
around 200 application functions and about 20 support subroutine packages.
These programs are being developed in two separate locations and are tested
on 5 different computer systems.  My stack keeps information on all of this
and automatically creates a summary report and a current problems list which
which is place in a file and is automatically brought into a word processor
for final editing/cleanup before distributing to project personnel.  It has
made my job as configuration manager much easier and more productive.

I would not even consider buying a home computer which does not have Hypercard
or its equivalent.  I also use it to manage my home maintenance activities and
by flower and vegetable gardens as I track the plant variaties.

Phil Pease 

My witty disclaimer - everything I perceive, through either sensory or
extrasensory means, has been filtered to such an extent that you had better not
attempt to attribute anything I say to anyone else.