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tiglionabbit on April 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming Languages are the Least Usable, but Mo...

Hypercard did take over the web. It's called Flash.

Even the JavaScript system we have now seems highly inspired by it.

jasonwatkinspdx on April 8, 2014 [–]

This is interesting, can you elaborate? My reaction is to disagree, I don't see any meaningful similarities.

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