[sambeau]

That is total conjecture and is not historically accurate. Hypercard was ridiculously popular and widely used amongst people who wouldn't ordinarily program (lawyers, historians, graphic designers etc). Hypercard was not aimed at CS graduates but even when if it was it comes from a time long before CS courses taught Java (And in many cases even C). This kind of verbose, human-readable scripting was exactly the sort of thing that a CS graduate would have experimented with along side the more traditional Pascal and Lisp.