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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Supercard
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Date: 3 Jul 89 21:51:15 GMT
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In article <1989Jun30.230808.6922@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
>  You must be really used with HyperCard and HyperTalk before you enter SC 
>and ST, which is a super-set of HC and HT.

I disagree.  There are marked differences between the way one interacts
with HC and SC (the most obvious example being the existence of separate
RunTime and Edit programs in SC).  I found the hardest part was
unlearning a lot of Hypercard-centric ways of thinking about the task.

(The second hardest part was dealing with the documentation which is
incomplete in places and misleading in others (nosirree, it doesn't look
like there was a rush to push this baby out of the nest :-).  The third
was realizing that there was no way I'd ever be able to do anything in
SC with less than 1meg.)

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void *Wayne_Mesard();         Mesard@BBN.COM         BBN, Cambridge, MA