Editing HyperTalk (section)

==Descendants of HyperTalk==
Various [[scripting language]]s have implemented a superset of HyperTalk (collectively known as '''xTalk'''):<ref>Roman Knöll, Vaidas Gasiunas, Mira Mezini, [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2048237.2048243 "Naturalistic types"], ''Onward! 2011: Proceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software'', pp. 33–48, October 2011.</ref>
* CompileIt!-Talk – A HyperCard stack and XCMD by [[Tom Pittman (computer scientist)|Tom Pittman]] that allowed compiling native 68000 machine code (e.g. for XCMDs and XFCNs) from HyperTalk code, and calling the native Macintosh toolbox routines. CompileIt was [[bootstrapping (compilers)|bootstrapped]], that is, later versions were compiled using earlier versions of itself.
* Double-XX-Talk – Double-XX was a lightweight HyperCard clone that shipped as an addition to CompileIt! and allowed running XCMDs and XFCNs without HyperCard, and even included a small HyperTalk interpreter.
* MediaTalk – The language of [[Oracle Media Objects]], a descendant of Plus, and the first cross-platform HyperCard clone. Furthermore, the only one that was truly modular.
* PlusTalk – The language of Plus, from Spinnaker Software (originally developed by Format Verlag), which was used as the basis for [[Oracle Media Objects]].
* [[SenseTalk]] – The language of the NeXT-originated [http://www.thoughtful.com HyperSense] and the VNC-based testing tool [https://web.archive.org/web/20040401125733/http://www.redstonesoftware.com/usingeggplant.html Eggplant].
* [[SuperTalk]] – The language of [[SuperCard]], the first HyperCard clone, by Bill Appleton. Appleton also wrote the popular [[World Builder]] adventure construction kit, and HyperDA.
* [[Transcript (programming language)|Transcript]] (formerly revTalk and MetaTalk) – The language implemented in the [[LiveCode]] (formerly Revolution and MetaCard) software platform and development environment. MetaCard was an early Unix-originated HyperCard clone that ran on Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris.
* XION - Originally the language of an open-source HyperCard clone that never materialized. Now implemented as [https://github.com/kreativekorp/openxion OpenXION].
* xTalk - After development of the community version of Livecode was ceased by Livecode, the open source version was forked into what is now [[OpenXTalk]]. This fork is under development at the [https://www.openxtalk.org openxtalk.org] website.

These clones and dialects (commonly referred to under the moniker of xTalk-languages) added various features to the language that are expected from a modern programming language, like exception handling, user-defined object properties, timers, multi-threading and even user-defined objects.

There are also languages whose syntax and structure show influences from HyperTalk, such as:
* [[ActionScript]] – The scripting language for [[Adobe Flash]].
* [[AppleScript]] – The main scripting language of Apple's Classic Mac OS, and still supported in [[macOS]].
* [[Lingo (programming language)|Lingo]] – The programming language of Macromedia Director started out with an xTalk-like syntax, although later versions went in a direction resembling JavaScript.
* [[JavaScript]] – A scripting language created by [[Brendan Eich]] which is commonly implemented as part of a [[web browser]] in order to create enhanced [[user interface]]s and dynamic [[website]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eich |first=Brendan |authorlink1=Brendan Eich |chapter=Foreword |editor1-last=Goodman |editor1-first=Danny |editor1-link=Danny Goodman |year=1998 |title=JavaScript Bible |edition=3rd |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=0-7645-3188-3 |lccn=97078208 |oclc=38888873 |ol=712205M |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/javascriptbible000good }}</ref> It was later generalized and standardized as [[ECMAScript]].
* Hyperscript – A scripting language that is designed to used for readable inline scripting and locality of behaviour in HTML, interpreted by a Javascript extension.

Many method names first popularized by HyperTalk have been incorporated into later languages, such as the <code>onmouseup</code> event handler in JavaScript.<ref name=beichSplashKeynote2011>Brendan Eich, [http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/splash-9915475 "Splash keynote 2011, slide 10"]</ref> Although Asymetrix [[ToolBook]] is often also considered a HyperCard clone, its scripting language apparently bears little resemblance to HyperTalk.