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

[Richard Gaskin]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:
>>>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.
> 
> I found this program long ago on a bbs. It was called MacCard or flashcard 
> or something like that.
> Buried in one of my 3000 diskettes that probably dont work anymore!
> 
> It basically looked like a rollodesk stack that came first with HC example 
> stacks...
> 
> Incidentally, those examples were the best way to get started with 
> HyperCard, it would be a nice
> idea to port them to runrev wouldn't it?

Porting would be problematic:  a lot of work to wind up with a 
non-resizable monochrome work.

Far better to bulld new examples that make good use of Rev's extended 
object model and syntax.

Got any?  :)

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