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From: JEFF@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Jeffrey Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: "Hypercard Stack Design Guidelines" book
Message-ID: <10164@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 20 Nov 89 21:39:04 GMT
References: <189@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
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Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <189@limbo.Intuitive.Com>, taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) writes:

>Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about, or had a chance to
>read through, the newly released "HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines"
>book from Addison-Wesley.  It's an official publication from Apple
>and is part of the Apple Technical Library.
>
>        (looks like it's going to retail at $16.95)
>
>                                                -- Dave Taylor
    I have the Stack Design Guidelines manual and can't say that it's been
of any real use.  It is mostly non-technical, which isn't necessarily a
bad thing, but I was hoping for something that would bridge the gap between
Apple's bundled Hypercard manual and the Goodman handbook.  It has a biblio-
graphy that might prove useful to some stack designers.  The format is a
bit too cutesy for my taste, and slightly condescending in tone without
being very informative about how Hypercard itself is put together.  The price
is $16.95.  It might be worth having if your department/company will spring
for it.  Otherwise borrow someone else's.  The bottom line is that I do NOT
find myself consulting it when I design or edit a stack; for that I still use
Danny Goodman.