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From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres)
Subject: Re: Problem running script with locked screen
In-Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.uucp's message of 1 Nov 89 16:29:38 GMT
Message-ID: <TIME.89Nov2170612@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP>
Sender: time@oxtrap.aa.ox.com (Tim Endres)
Reply-To: time@oxtrap.UUCP
Organization: Oxtrap - Ann Arbor, MI
References: <1649@gmdzi.UUCP> <8871@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Nov 89 17:06:12

In article <8871@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) writes:

   In this way, I think C programming is easier; while it's sometimes
   obscure even to those of us who've been doing it for many years, at
   least you can just do what you need to do, rather than running into
   language limitations all over the place.  And I don't feel that adding
   the maybe twenty to forty necessary new properties and commands to
   HyperTalk would make it as obscure as C.

And I have written only 4 libraries that allow me to crate HyperCard
like applications in no time flat. Actually, better that HyperCard.
In fact, I have heard only one comment about my latest creation...

"How do you do that in HyperCard?"

The answer: You don't.

HyperCard is not for development of applications. Period.
It is a nice prototyper. It is great for simple generic problems.