Talk:Stagecast Creator

History: AgentSheets is prior art
Formantsound, before you just edit out the language dependency please check the facts. The AgentSheets graphical rewrite rules existed long before the Creator ones. AgentSheets was demonstrated to Apple and later even presented at WWDC 93. Apple taped the event.

non-graphical tests and actions are central to Creator
The annotated graphical rewrite rules in Stagecast Creator are based on the graphical rewrite rules in Tableau, by Ted Kaehler and Alan Kay, which predates AgentSheets. Stagecast was developed independently of AgentSheets. When AgentSheets was shown to Apple, it was purely graphical, and had no non-graphical tests and actions. Instead, state in AgentSheets was shown by drawing dots above a character's head. The non-graphical tests and actions that augment Creator's graphical rewrite rules are essential to its design, and are central to its expressiveness and power. Non-graphical tests and actions were later added to AgentSheets. It is therefore inappropriate for 24.8.192.13 to rewrite the sentence "Programming in Creator uses graphical rewrite rules augmented with non-graphical tests and actions." to "Programming in Creator uses graphical rewrite rules based on agent-based graphical rewrite rules originally introduced in 1991 by the AgentSheets system. Creator also included some non-graphical tests and actions." Formantsound (talk) 03:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)