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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: XCMD's
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Date: 23 May 88 03:37:05 GMT
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>> Hypertalk has nothing to do with XCMDS or XFCNS. HyperTalk is the HyperCard
>> programming language. XCMDS and XFCNS is an interface that allows external
>> programmed modules to be stuck into HyperCard. Completely different beasts

>You're entirely wrong about that.  HyperTalk and XCMDs are as closely
>related as they could possibly be.  I designed XCMDs to be just like
>HyperTalk handlers except written in a compiled language.  They have
>the same calling interface as HyperTalk handlers, all the same abilites
>to send messages and evaluate expressions, and exist in the same
>inheritance hierarchy.

Bad choice of words on my part. Sorry. (What I meant to say was....)

Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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