Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.programmer:21462 comp.sys.mac.hypercard:5803 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Scripting language (was Re: Gripes about System 7.0) Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 91 03:51:49 GMT References: <5611@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <3810@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <2899@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Jan24.223857.9881@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: duggie@jessica.stanford.edu's message of 24 Jan 91 22:38:57 GMT In article <1991Jan24.223857.9881@portia.Stanford.EDU> duggie@jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt) writes: 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? Well, for one thing, a lot of us know it already. Always important. Besides that, it's the *only* language that I know of that really has a good paradigm for the Mac. Trying to use anything like a standard language would involve much more for the average user to learn--if they've learned to use the Mac, they've learned a bunch of the stuff that underlies the Hypertalk concepts. Why throw that away? What exactly do you have against it? Note the crossposting: this is clearly of interest to c.s.m.programmer, and (IMHO) should be addressed by c.s.m.hypercard, since they're the ones with the most experience in HyperTalk. Feel free to flame me if you take major exception. -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/