Maybe one of the reasons I didn’t discover Sophie, is that she is hidden in Productivity Tools…

Sophie۪s raison d۪̻tre is to enable people to create robust, elegant rich-media, networked documents without recourse to programming. We have word processors, video, audio and photo editors but no viable options for assembling the parts into a complex whole except tools like Flash which are expensive, hard to use, and often create documents with closed proprietary file formats. Sophie promises to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of creative people.

Of course if you were going to write the next Hypercard, you’d do it in SmallTalk wouldn’t you? Maybe lisp or some other language that engenders a superiority complex.. only kidding.. well maybe not..
I haven’t tried it yet but that except above looks a lot like Hypercard doesn’t it? Could the glorious days of end-user programming be making a comeback? I’ll let you know how I get on.

My first attempt with Sophie didn’t leave me feeling Hypercardy (which is jumper Bill Atkinson used to wear). If that isn’t a painfully obscure long tail attempt at humour I don’t know what is. Maybe only I get that one.

Niche humour is the new un-funny.