Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!think!ames!amdcad!amd!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard: what's it really worth? Message-ID: <1008@cpocd2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 11:28:28 EST Article-I.D.: cpocd2.1008 Posted: Fri Dec 4 11:28:28 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 02:05:48 EST References: <6956@ut-ngp.UUCP> <174400080@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ Lines: 27 In article <174400080@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> scaletti@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > > >PLEASE, ITS Smalltalk NOT SmallTalk!!!!! > >I think any resemblance between HyperTalk and Smalltalk is >purely coincidental (and for 'celebrity status ruboff'). > > Kurt J. Hebel Here is a resemblance: You can send messages to objects in both HyperTalk and Smalltalk. You cannot do this in C (unless C++ or Objective C), Pascal, Lisp (unless e.g. Flavors), PL/I, Algol, Prolog, Fortran, BASIC, Jovial, or most other languages. This resemblance is not coincidental. Bill Atkinson said in an interview I saw that Smalltalk was the second biggest language influence on HyperTalk. The first? Why, English, of course. -- Howard A. Landman {oliveb,hplabs}!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard howard%cpocd2.intel.com@RELAY.CS.NET "I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't do that."