Bill Atkinson Dies from Pancreatic Cancer at 74

Article Comments
21

Thanks for the follow-up. I guess hope springs eternal. :slight_smile:

As I’ve mentioned in another thread, in many ways I owed my livelihood to HyperCard (and indirectly to Bill) for the first half of my career. His genius will be missed.

But one of my favorite Bill (and Steve) stories involved not HyperCard, but a QuickDraw primitive he wrote called RoundRect:

https://www.folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

22

I have still an old MacBook (G4) with Rosetta One so I can still look at my old stacks in OS 9 :slight_smile:

Today still a FileMaker Developer sneaking out the business …
Louis