About HyperCard ( was Re: [squeak-dev] Getting rid of coloured code)

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 13:51:34 UTC 2013


Below. 

On Feb 28, 2013, at 5:39 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 27, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ted Kaehler has done two implementations of DBJr AFAIK, one in Squeak and one in Javascript.
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>> Here's the javascript version (for Lively Kernel)
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>> http://forum.world.st/Try-DBJr-HyperCard-like-stacks-in-Lively-Kernel-td4599466.html
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>> I had to dig to find the Moshi image, but here's an actual Squeak image -- and I think this was the right image -- note that this was a prototype and that some things (e.g. saving) aren't implemented. Also, I can't get it to open anymore, but I think that might be because I don't have a non-Cog VM now? Not sure which .sources file you want but I'm betting it's V3. The file of interest is "Text Field for LObject.zip"
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>> http://tinlizzie.org/lesserphic2/
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>> I was really fascinated with both the approach and the presentation he did here. Active essays are cool.
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>> Meantime I have to figure out why I can't open the image. I thought Cog could open older images, but interpreters can't open Cog images. Hmmm.
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> Depends on how old.  Cog (& StackVM) can only run closure images.
> Eliot (phone)

I bet that's exactly it; I think the image is based on an early 3x which is well before you introduced closure semantics to the existing not-quite-closure blocks. 
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