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Scratch is nothing like HyperCard.

• coldtea 8y ago
  It's pretty much in the same ballpark.
  • Angostura 8y ago
    Having used both, Scratch is nothing like Hypercard at all. Hypercard was very simple to start with, but you could produce properly powerful programmes with it if you wanted. A closer analogy would be to the fully featured Logos you could get in the late 80s which looked like simple drawing languages on the surface, but were actually pretty full-featured LISP implementations.
    • VonGuard 8y ago
      Agreed, totally different things. Hypercard was for sharing hyperlinked information. Scratch is for teaching kindergartners how to program in an object-oriented fashion.
      • rickyc091 8y ago
        Actually, Scratch is being used in colleges for CS 101 class as well.
      • caf 8y ago
        The comment I was replying to was grouping Hypercard and QBASIC together under the umbrella of "..democratising programming... reads like English..." and it was specifically this that I was responding to. QBASIC isn't for sharing hyperlinked information either!