ianf@NADA.KTH.SE (Ian Feldman) (11/17/89)
In article <LITERARY.89111622154507@UCF1VM> Discussions about Literature <LITERARY@UCF1VM> writes: > > Who should get the Nobel Prize for Literature --- who is alive & > producing great work & has yet to receive the laurel? Actually I'd like to nominate Bill Atkinson, the author of Hypercard, Lisa Pascal, QuickDraw for the Macintosh a o. I cannot but marvel at the obvious elegance of the Hypercard. Its tightly coded stucture, unambigouous, consistent metaphors and the poetry of the built-in command language, the HyperTalk, is in a class of its own. I'm serious: anybody that comes up with a method to command a computer's attention using constructs like "slow fade to black" deserves to be taken seriously for the litterary author that he is. -- ---- ------ ianf@nada.kth.se/ @sekth.bitnet/ uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf ---- --