Re: [Pythoncard-users] What Do We Call These Things?

[Danny G. <da...@da...>]

[Offered simply as a non-constructive dart tossed from the back booth by
someone who hasn't contributed anything to the great work done here.]

This thread gets me off my duff because I think the card-ness of
PythonCard's name and any metaphor used to describe its components shackles
it with too much baggage (both good and bad). Those who know HyperCard well
will have certain expectations that PythonCard is not intended to meet;
those who may have only heard of HyperCard will feel like they have to know
something else before getting to know PythonCard.

Hemispherical-floating-arm computers notwithstanding, anything that conjures
up "Apple" in non-Apple users'/programmers' minds is not a plus for the
promotion of a new OS-platform-independent technology, IMHO. If it's a good
authoring environment, it will attract old 'Card farts, like me (...and hi,
Dan!) even if you name it something that would get bleeped on "South Park."

And Kevin will be able to spend more time explaining what it is, rather than
defending what it isn't.

Danny
http://www.dannyg.com

> 
> As much as I've been involved in PythonCard, I still don't know what exactly
> is meant by stack, background and card. Can someone provide definitions of
> these that make sense in wxPython terms, for those of us who never used
> HyperCard?