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Article #49Re: A high-level language for animation & sound ??
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 17:23
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 17:23
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In article <1833@draken.nada.kth.se>, ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes: > >Just wondering if anyone out there is developing a high-level language that > >has all the flexibility & simpilicty (& device independence) of PostScript but > >capable of addressing sound & animation as well ? > > Yes, there is such an animal, and its name is HyperTalk[tm]. Animation > via VideoWorks HC-Driver or by XCMD. How much more flexible can you get? Well, I'd say it misses on the "device-independent" bit... HyperCard is about as Macintosh-dependent as software gets... It has some good ideas, though. It's aimed a little too much at interaction for it to be useful for describing multi-media documents, though, in my opinion. Anybody from CMU or BBN want to pipe up here :-)? -- Amanda Walker amanda@intercon.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media Subject: Re: A high-level language for animation & sound ?? Message-ID: <1475@intercon.com> Date: 2 Oct 89 17:23:57 GMT References: <EHO.89Oct1023005@cognito.Princeton.EDU> <1833@draken.nada.kth.se> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 20