Re. PythonCard - was Re: Event-driven GUIs ...

[Neil Hodgson]

Ron Stephens:
> (from SourceForge)
>
> """A card file program (in the spirit of Apple's HyperCard) designed to
>                                       store and search thousands of cards
> containing megabytes of
>                                       text. Uses gzip to compress text.
Uses
> superimposed coding
>                                       (signature file indexing) for fast
> searching. Written in Python"""

   One of the most hyped aspects of HyperCard initially was its text
searching feature which used content hints (I imagine a form of lossy/fuzzy
hashed index) to allow fast searching in many cases without the storage
overhead of complete indexing.

   Neil