When I saw this article in the HN list the first thing I thought of was Hypercard. I started using it a uni to do text analysis for my sociology thesis. I went

When I saw this article in the HN list the first thing I thought of was Hypercard. I started using it a uni to do text analysis for my sociology thesis. I went from knowing nothing to a visual word mapping stack in 2 weeks, my only programming experience prior to that was apple2 machine code and AppleBASIC nearly 10 years prior. With that experience I was employed by the university to renovate their Stacks. Now I do programming everyday, and am constantly nostalgic for the something like the Hypercard experience. I search all the time for language alternatives and as interesting as it is, no languages are as intuitive as HyperTalk. Just as I was telling myself Hypercard could be my career, Apple discontinued it! There were some companies that jumped to 'replicate' it but I suppose they didn't have the genius of the Apple engineers, they weren't the same. Even today I have to build a web app and I'm agonising over having to do a HTML interface and hook up functions and the ajax in javascript and do all the sql for the database, its just so repetitive and boring and hard, not fun. Anyway nice choice.