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I really enjoyed working in HyperCard, HyperTalk 2.0 -- but never felt that way about AppleScript. I don't know why, exactly. Perhaps it was that HyperCard def

by watersb 10y ago

I really enjoyed working in HyperCard, HyperTalk 2.0 -- but never felt that way about AppleScript. I don't know why, exactly. Perhaps it was that HyperCard defined a domain. Applying the same primitives to every app could get clumsy. A hand-waving example: making every useful procedure a function hanging off of a single Window object. Except for the two functions that are actually in the Application object... (I don't have specific example at the moment but this sort of thing was discouraging for me.)

kkylin 10y ago
I think what was fun about HyperCard was that it was not purely textual -- a lot of the work (and fun) in building a stack was graphical. AppleScript seems more like a traditional programming language, but with syntax I have a hard time remembering (only use it very occasionally) and a lot of extra typing.