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by VonGuard 3009 days ago
Agreed, totally different things. Hypercard was for sharing hyperlinked information. Scratch is for teaching kindergartners how to program in an object-oriented fashion.
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caf 3009 days 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!

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rickyc091 3009 days ago
Actually, Scratch is being used in colleges for CS 101 class as well.
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