Editing Lingo (programming language) (section)

===Verbose syntax===
When Lingo was created, a verbose syntax was designed to mimic spoken language, so it would be easy for new users. Users could write [[HyperTalk]]-like sentences such as:
<syntaxhighlight lang="applescript">
 if the visibility of sprite 5 then go to the frame
</syntaxhighlight>
In ''go to'' statements, the "to" is optional, and unlike other programming languages, ''go'' statements reference frames in Director's Score, not specific code lines.

Lingo was also initially very robust by providing object generation through a notion called <code>factory</code>, which led to the language's extensibility through External Factories (XFactories) or XObjects. For Director 3.13 and later versions, extensibility occurred via a different type of plug-in called an XTRA, based upon the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM).