gmarzot@mbunix.mitre.org (G. Marzot) (02/05/91)
I would be interested in hearing comments on SuperCard vs. ThinkP/C-TCL. I am not a programmer by training but have done my share of Mac programming , primarily with Think Pascal and now recently including the TCL. In the course of a recent project(a very large application involving rich GUI, motion graphics, simple calculations and database access/implemented by a design team of 4 or 5 people)some colleagues have suggested that Supercard is more suited to the task. What are the trade offs between the two? Responsiveness may be an issue but Object-Pascal with the TCL does not give PEAK speed performance anyway. Flexability may be an issue also but so far we have not seen anything that SC cannot do that TP can(comments?). Another point that was recognized was that in SC the structure of the program was limited to the objects they provide(i.e., cards, fields. buttons) and that one could not ,say,design an abstract supervisory object to talk to a number of other objects. anyway my feeling is that they both must have their own application-space, the trouble is in drawing the line. Thanks for any input. -GSM PS - lets not turn this into a flame fest. Responsibility for the views expressed here belongs only to myself and not to any organization.