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by ok123456 724 days ago
Yes.

It was a well-done Smalltalk-like language with a RAD component that made making, albeit limited, GUIs about as complicated as using PowerPoint.

You could give it to a "smart" kid, and they could, at the very least, make interactive fiction with it with very little instruction. The vast majority of HyperCard stacks could be considered to be non-linear PowerPoint slide decks---cards with buttons that called goto statements that jumped to other cards.

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And in fact PowerPoint is Turing Complete and you can implement some basic programs in PowerPoint.
PowerPoint has VBA, so that is true.