HyperTalk

Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler.

A verbose semicompiled language with loose syntax and high readability. It relies on HyperCard as an object management system, development environment, and interface builder. Programs are organized into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and message-passing among scripts that are attached to the stack, background, card, field and button objects.

"Apple Macintosh HyperCard User Guide", Apple Computer, 1987.

HyperTalk Language Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley, 1988.

HyperTalk 2.0

HyperTalk 2.2