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From: duggie@jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Scripting language (was Re: Gripes about System 7.0)
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Date: 24 Jan 91 22:38:57 GMT
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In article <2899@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes:
>Eventually, if all goes well, we hope to see an object-oriented 
>system-wide scripting language based on HyperTalk and AppleEvents which 
>can be used to control this process.

I find the idea of a scripting language based on Hypertalk to be a bit
frightening.  Do people really think Hypertalk is the way to go?

>John Norstad
>Academic Computing and Network Services
>Northwestern University
>jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu

Doug Felt
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Stanford University
duggie@jessica.stanford.edu