MC IDE

[Brian Yennie]

Monte,

I sympathize with some of your thoughts here, but I think you are 
missing some of the appeal. As someone who has moved from Hypercard to 
Supercard to Metacard (and then to Rev) as each has come out, I have 
always taken the leap to the next tool at whatever point it proved to 
be worth it.

I've been using the Rev IDE for months and am quite comfortable with 
it; however, for about 40% of my work I would still prefer to work in 
the MetaCard IDE. I can't quite quantify a rule for when I use each 
one, but I can tell you that there's no doubt in my mind that when I do 
use the MetaCard IDE, it's because for that particular project it's 
faster, easier and bottom line more efficient.

Maybe some day the Rev IDE will reach a point where it's utterly 
pointless to use the MetaCard IDE, but I kind of doubt it.

If I had to pick one, it would probably be the Rev version. But that 
certainly does not make maintaining the MetaCard IDE worthless!

Please don't insinuate that this has anything to do with Hypercard 
lingerers- I haven't used Hypercard since about 1996 (and by then I had 
a copy of Supercard and was soon to buy Metacard). I've got all sorts 
of IDEs here, and they are most certainly not stuck back in time- don't 
throw out my emacs just because SimpleText looks nicer!

Brian

> I still haven't thought of a reason to maintain the MetaCard IDE let 
> alone
> the documentation. Just because you're comforatable using the MC IDE 
> it's no
> reason to waste time maintaining it yourselves. It'sll only take you a 
> few
> weeks to get the same level of comfort with Rev. 2 1/2 years ago 
> people on
> this list couldn't comprehend why people were still using HyperCard. I 
> guess
> this is history repeating itself?
>
> Maybe the people lingering here are the ones that only just realised 
> that
> Apple has stopped working on HyperCard? Well let me tell you that in 10
> years time when you realise that MetaCard corp is no longer working on
> MetaCard you will move to Revolution anyway. Why not make the move and 
> get
> it over with? If there's something you're not happy with in the IDE 
> then ask
> the team to change it. Even spend your time developing a reference
> implementation for the runrev team (as I did with the distribution 
> builder)
> rather than making your life hard and working on MC.