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		protomyth on May 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Complete Hypercard Handbook (1988) I don't think it needs to return trip for it to be useful. Most of the value is allowing programmers to get the business logic that expert users generate.

tomcam on May 8, 2021 [–]

It’s really, really hard to explain that to users when they see what looks to be editable serialized code for forms.

protomyth on May 8, 2021 | [–]

I was thinking a file export, not something the user would deal with. They get their nice HyperTalk with Excel functions.

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