Geoff Canyon wrote:
> AppleScript (a built-in scripting language on the Mac) is somewhat
> similar to HyperTalk, etc., in using an english dialect.
Versions of Hypercard after 2.0 also included a language property that
allowed scripts to be written in the language of your choice, provided
you had the appropriate translator. I recall seeing a translator that
changed HC style comments -- this is a comment
to Pascal style {this is a comment}
> The interesting thing is that all dialects of AppleScript
> compile to the same underlying meta-code
Hypercard handlers are compiled into a tokenized format which is kept in
memory for immediate execution, rather than interpreting each handler on
every call. Does Metacard do something similar, or does it interpret
each handler from scratch on every call?
--
Steven D'Aprano
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