> think of writing a complicated Emacs major mode, not using Emacs lisp but a simplified textual language intended for those without much expertise. That's goo

> think of writing a complicated Emacs major mode, not using Emacs lisp but a simplified textual language intended for those without much expertise. That's good enough to build form-based apps with basic conditional logic, which was Hypercard's biggest use case. A person can sit through a Hypercard tutorial and learn how to build a small app using forms. That same person will have a much harder time rebuilding that app in PHP or Xamarin.