Parallel track: - MacBASIC: Mac GUI programming w/o Pascal or C https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html (which is somethi

Parallel track: - MacBASIC: Mac GUI programming w/o Pascal or C https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html (which is something I'll never forgive Bill Gates for) - HyperCARD (also on that list, and agree with almost all points made): It was magic to get into Developer mode and to create stacks --- it's unfortunate that Asymetrix Toolbook didn't get further, nor that the Heizer stack for converting HyperCard stacks to Toolbook wasn't more widely available, and a shame that Runtime Revolution which became Livecode reneged on their opensource effort --- hopefully someone will make good on that: https://openxtalk.org/ https://openxtalk.org/ Unfortunately, I never got anywhere w/ Interfacebuilder.app or Objective-C.... - Lua: real variables in TeX! (and latex), and one gets METAPOST as well --- even recursion becomes simple: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/723897/breaking-out-of-recursion-in-latex-macro-using-lua/725720#725720 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/723897/breaking-out-... - OpenSCAD: Make 3D things w/o having to use a full-fledged CAD program - BlockSCAD: Make 3D things w/o typing: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ (though to be fair, https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor also allows that) - PythonSCAD: variables and file I/O for OpenSCAD (though to be fair, RapCAD had the latter, it was just hard to use it w/o traditional variables) https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ Still working through a re-write of my OpenSCAD library in Python: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview and am hopeful that a tool like to https://nodezator.com/ https://nodezator.com/ will make that graphically accessible (w/o going into OpenSCAD mode to use OSGE).