Lingo & Macromedia Director

Lingo is the scripting language John Henry Thompson designed at Macromedia for Director. It powered the interactive logic underneath two decades of CD-ROM titles, museum kiosks, and education software worldwide.

Thompson built Lingo to be readable by anyone: the syntax reads like English, the logic stays visible, and the author stays in control. He returned to develop it for a final year in 2003. He still teaches it at NYU Tisch ITP.