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Well, CanDo is definitely much more than a HyperCard-like program and is much more like VB than like HyperCard, although the programming paradym is a Card/Deck concept. The CanDo language provides pretty extensive support of Intuition, Graphics, and Exec such that you can do most anything with it, within certain limits. You can create a filerequester using the List object or by using the built-in file requester. It also supports a Memo object, which is essentially a window for text complete with scroll bars and arrows. The ARexx port provides the needed ancillary support for complete access to the Amiga. It supports menus and submenus, text, integer, and string gadget objects, various text/document objects, sound, and graphics and animation capabilities. A finished "Deck" can be distributed alone and run by users with a PD distributed Browser program, or the browser code can be linked into the program module and the entire program distributed as stand-alone, but it isn't compiled to native code, rather is like what you described as a threaded interpreter or interpreted p-codes.