From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:07:07 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > And.... one of the answers to "how do you program it?" is "you use   
   > Hypercard."   
      
   From its inception in 1984, Macintosh programming developed a   
   reputation for being notoriously difficult and arcane. Users loved the   
   ease of use of the apps, but creating those apps took a lot of work.   
      
   HyperCard did change all that, in quite a massive way. Suddenly the   
   idea of “end-user programming” became feasible. If you wanted to   
   learn, you got yourself a copy of Danny Goodman’s “The Complete   
   HyperCard Handbook”.   
      
   I embraced HyperCard too. My contribution was to write collections of   
   code called XCMDs and XFCNs. These added new statements and functions   
   to the HyperTalk language, to give access to system capabilities not   
   already available to HyperCard programmers.   
      
   Look at how many of these extensions there were:   
   .   
   Can you spot one or two of mine in there?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)