I loved HyperTalk, but my experience with it was that: A. Almost any English sentence was grammatically valid. B. Almost none of those sentences did what you

I loved HyperTalk, but my experience with it was that: A. Almost any English sentence was grammatically valid. B. Almost none of those sentences did what you expected. I find AppleScript a more regular language overall. I think the biggest difference is that HyperTalk was built in to the HyperCard environment, and therefore most of the “language” was in fact just HyperCard-supplied functionality, whereas AppleScript has very little built-in functionality, and sometimes this surprises people when they discover that it’s up to some other application to decide what the behavior of the script is.