-- card: 13063 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 3797 -- name: -- part contents for background part 1 ----- text ----- From: David Bogartz Date: Sat, 26 Dec 87 12:03 EDT It seems to me that when you ask what is HyperCard good for, the qualifier "that couldn't be done better with other software" leaves out an important consideration. HyperCard lets you get up and running fast. This is often more important than a lot of other characteristics, such as performance, elegance of code, or efficiency. Admittedly, you may be setting yourself up for a fall by trying to create a database system in HyperCard, because it'll work fine for the first few records but quickly deteriorate. That doesn't mean that small database applications shouldn't be done with HyperCard. Douglas Adams' words about HyperCard in a recent issue of MacUser bear repeating (well, paraphrasing, actually): HyperCard is like a human being. Human beings aren't the fastest animals on the planet, or the animals that build most efficiently, or the strongest animals, or really the best at anything (except possibly the most intelligent). But they are fairly good at all of these things, and they integrate them together well. And so it is with HyperCard. David Bogartz dsbogartz@amherst.bitnet -- part contents for background part 45 ----- text ----- What is HyperCard good for?