[OT] Is there a relationship between Xtalk languages andsmalltalk?

[Dan Shafer]

Richard.....

What a great trip down memory lane.

Thanks.

Dan

On May 19, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
>
>> What became of the creators of Hypercard? Were they involved in  
>> any of
>> Hypercard's descendants?
>>
>
> Not directly, but there was a moment of widsom in which Silicon  
> Beach's Charlie Jackson (SB produced SuperCard) proposed to Apple's  
> Jean Louis Gassee that they establish a HyperTalk standard to guide  
> the various dialects that were cropping up.  Gassee agreed in  
> principle, and the effort was even discussed publicly for a brief  
> while, but unfortunately other elements within Apple shut the  
> effort down before any working meetings took place.
>
>
> Some trivia on the mysterious coincidences with HyperCard and  
> SuperCard:
>
> HyperCard was written by Bill Atkinson
> SuperCard was written by Bill Appleton
>
> The first HyperCard book was written by Danny Goodman
> The first SuperCard book was written by Danny Gookin
>
> Today I'm told Bill and Bill live a few blocks from one another in  
> Santa Cruz.
>
>
> And more trivia:
>
> Atkinson's original vision for HyperCard didn't include a scripting  
> language, an idea that was suggested by Dan Winkler during the  
> development cycle.
>
> During that time another product came on the market, which made it  
> the first scriptable multimedia authoring tool for Mac.
>
> What was it?
>
> World Builder, written by Bill Appleton.
>
> Though originally designed as a game authoring system, its  
> scriptable control over text, images, sound, and screen-to-screen  
> navigation in an easy-to-use very-high-level language made it  
> popular among educators for building courseware.
>
> Of course once Apple released HyperCard for free bundled with every  
> Mac, the world of World Builder became a forgotten legacy....
>
>
> One last bit of trivia:
>
> Today the world's most popular multimedia authoring system is  
> Flash, and while we know it as a Macromedia product it was actually  
> an acquisition.
>
> Who originally produced it?
>
> FutureSplash, a company owned by Charlie Jackson.
>
>
>
> PS: in the early '90s a magazine premiered called "New Media" --  
> anyone here have the first two issues?
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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