At 5:48 PM -0800 on 11/16/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Someone: Please do consider what happens if I, on an
>American OC system open a German OC stack in your
>proposal.
>
>Alain: Have you taken into consideration HyperCard's
>Translator interface?
It's what...? I've never heard of this. I thaught HT was simply HT.
>Someone: The first major hurdle is standardizing on
>the OC bytecode language as that will define our
>limitations.
>
>Alain: Yup. Can a non-programmer help in this matter?
Doubtfully. It's something I'll probably do when Interpreter
AttemptNumberTwo comes out.
>Someone: ... one xTalk may actually have more features
>than another, however both will be subsets of the OC
>bytecodes.
We should not try and standardize for HC, MC, SC, NuCard, etc. all under
one system. Only NuCard needs to have it standard.
>Alain: PS: If there is interest in HC's Translator, I
>can provide all the technical details of this
>little-known HyperCard feature.
Yes, please do!
