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2026-04-26 02:42 UTC
happy to discover this short talk by John Henry Thompson - the creator of the Lingo scripting language for Macromedia Director. JHT talks about the history of the language, from its inception through its various versions.
it was one of my first OOP experiences as a kid, and left a huge impression in how i understood user-centred programming. love learning that it was deeply influenced by Smalltalk
https://youtu.be/DvS4h-1Eyu4?t=161
#macromedia #programming #multimedia
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@kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-26 06:13
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Lingo was great. I enjoyed it much more than Flash’s Actionscript at the time
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@hejsna@ruby.social 2026-04-26 12:54
@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net loved Director, my first tech job was as a game developer writing Lingo for a living! I’m still salty about how things went down with Flash. A slower, inferior vector-based platform won out because people made memes in it, while we had accelerated 3d graphics and physics engines…