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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Why was Hypercard //gs written in Pascal?
Summary: just a question, NOT A FLAME!
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.223449.9492@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 22:34:49 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.060339.16154@csn.org> <49059@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <49059@apple.Apple.COM> stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:
>Yep, that's exactly the right thing to do.  Here's actual real live source
>code from HyperCardIIGS, where we needed to do exactly what you describe:
>
>  hyperCardResFile := startStopInfo.resFileID;
>  {$IFC Internal }	{ convert the read-only resource fork to read/write }
>    CloseResourceFile(hyperCardResFile);
>    hyperCardResFile := OpenResourceFile(read+write, NIL, hyperCardAppName);
>    IF _toolErr <> 0 THEN hyperCardResFile := 0;
>    startStopInfo.resFileID := hyperCardResFile;
>  {$ENDC }
>

Just a simple question Andy, (Not a flame!). Why did the HC//gs team
go with pascal as the language for writing the program? Was C 
considered but lost out? Was Assembly also avoided? Just for
trivia's sake, I'd like to know some of the thought behind the
designing of HC//gs.


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