> Hypercard was a thrust in the direction of the Engelbart/Kay/Papert vision of personal computing, one where there wasn't so much of a division between "programmers" and "users"
I couldn't agree more with this conception, and I wish that philosophy was more widespread within our industry. Sadly, it seem that the predominant philosophy is the opposite: users are mere consumers, cattle really, who should be grateful their programmer masters deign to provide them anything.
I couldn't agree more with this conception, and I wish that philosophy was more widespread within our industry. Sadly, it seem that the predominant philosophy is the opposite: users are mere consumers, cattle really, who should be grateful their programmer masters deign to provide them anything.