There was Scala on the Commodore Amiga released circa 1990, which was a lot like HyperCard; only full color, and allowed for embedding animations and audio to a level that made HyperCard stuff on Macintoshes feel: crufty IMHO.

Back in the era when "multimedia" was still a relatively novel term, and actually pertained to precisely the sorts of things Scala helped facilitate in creating.

Alas, most people do not remember or never knew that Scala (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company) ) and instead probably think of the programming language which came decades later ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(programming_language) ) and to say that I have no love for computer systems, failing to acknowledge predecessors and generating needless name collisions, particularly revealing glaring ignorance of the Commodore Amiga? Would be an understatement.

I saw some clip of a YouTube interview with Martin Odersky (the creator of the latter Scala programming language) and the way he was discussing other programming languages such as Python and Zig and Rust? The clip was so bad, I can't imagine subjugating myself to the full blown interview. Maybe old animosities linger? Bad name collision, is bad.

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