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Yes.

It was a well-done Smalltalk-like language with a RAD component that made making, albeit limited, GUIs about as complicated as using PowerPoint.

You could give it to a "smart" kid, and they could, at the very least, make interactive fiction with it with very little instruction. The vast majority of HyperCard stacks could be considered to be non-linear PowerPoint slide decks---cards with buttons that called goto statements that jumped to other cards.



And in fact PowerPoint is Turing Complete and you can implement some basic programs in PowerPoint.


PowerPoint has VBA, so that is true.




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