> I saw that they made heavy use of XCMDs and XFCNs -- custom extensions you had to write in a compiled language (Pascal? C?). At that point, why would you both

> I saw that they made heavy use of XCMDs and XFCNs -- custom extensions you had to write in a compiled language (Pascal? C?). At that point, why would you bother with Hypercard at all? Hey, don't forget about shareware culture! You didn't need to code up these XFCN/XCMDs yourself. You could try and buy them! There was a whole ecosystem of developers making these things (WindowMaker anyone?) and it worked pretty well for what it was.