Re: The Lisa (was: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt)

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:07:07 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:

And.... one of the answers to "how do you program it?" is "you use
Hypercard."

From its inception in 1984, Macintosh programming developed a
reputation for being notoriously difficult and arcane. Users loved the
ease of use of the apps, but creating those apps took a lot of work.

HyperCard did change all that, in quite a massive way. Suddenly the
idea of “end-user programming” became feasible. If you wanted to
learn, you got yourself a copy of Danny Goodman’s “The Complete
HyperCard Handbook”.

I embraced HyperCard too. My contribution was to write collections of
code called XCMDs and XFCNs. These added new statements and functions
to the HyperTalk language, to give access to system capabilities not
already available to HyperCard programmers.

Look at how many of these extensions there were:
<https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22hypercard_xcmd-xfcn%22>.
Can you spot one or two of mine in there?