Re: FLASH: Any progress on these? (OT)

[John Dowdell]

At 2:28 PM 9/29/98, Wayne Townsend wrote:

>Lingo is NO SuperTalk.  In fact, some would argue that the basis of Lingo

>was given it's genisis in SuperTalk.  The scripting looks awefully similar.

>;)  And SuperTalk was there years earlier.


Actually, SuperCard first appeared in 1989, the same year that Director 2.0

introduced object-oriented Lingo. Previously there was a BASIC-like

scripting language in VideoWorks, but Lingo used SmallTalk on the back end

and HyperTalk on the front end as its inspirations.


Towards 1994 Lingo turned into a compiled scripting language (much smaller

than JavaScript) with a new object-oriented model (parent/child scripts),

and this was extended to drag'n'drop behaviors in 1997. It had the

object-oriented "factories" from the git-go.


jd







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