from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
HyperTalk
A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan
Winkler, with loose {syntax} and high readability.
HyperTalk uses {HyperCard} as an object management system,
development environment and interface builder. Programs are
organised 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 uses message-passing
among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card,
field and button objects.
{Apple Computer} has taken back distribution and maintenance of
HyperCard from {Claris} Corporation
["HyperTalk Language Reference Manual", A-W 1988].
(1994-11-17)