[hunnypot]

I just read through what you had to say about the death of HyperCard.

Why do you think Python etc. do not fill the hole HyperCard has left? Is it because of their ever-so-slight price of admission (which tends to push non-professional users away, as compared to the comfortable familiarity of a GUI)?

[asciilifeform]

Which Python? Ver. 2 or 3? On what machine? With what graphical libraries? How much study would be involved in knowing all (and yes, it matters) of the Python+libs+os aggregate?

And does anyone alive know the above aggregate the way a kid can know Hypercard?

The 'master of all you survey' feeling of a kid on a raw Commodore-64 (or, to a lesser extent, Hypercard) - matters. If you've never experienced it, you are a blind man.

Asking the question re: Python suggests precisely this kind of blindness.

I confess that I do not know how to explain sight to a blind man. Perhaps someone else here is up to the task.