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From: moster@iris.ucdavis.edu (Richard Haynes Moster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UltraCard vs CanDo
Keywords: hypertext, hypermedia, hypercard, hyperetc.
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Date: 24 Mar 90 00:43:45 GMT
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In article <13271@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> raf@PRC.Unisys.COM (Ralph A. Foy) writes:
>It's about time to by my machine a present, and after hearing about
>some of the wonderful things Mac users do with hypercard,  I was considering
>getting either UltraCard or CanDo. Mary from Safe Harbor said that her
>husband and son prefer CanDo, but frankly I never heard of it.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with either product they wish to share?

	CanDo is a meta-language for the Amiga.  I just saw it demo'ed
the other night.  It allows you to interactively produce a standalone, 
executable program.  For example, if you are writing a C program and
wish to open a new window, you deal with the NewWindow struct and then
get back a Window struct pointer, etc.  In CanDo, on the other hand,
in order to write code that opens a window, you click on gadgets
and move the mouse to where you want the window to be, and CanDo
produces executable code that does what you asked for.  In other
words, it's a kind of programming environment that allows you to
program with the aid of gadgets, the mouse, screen graphics, etc.
Another way to look at it is that it's a way to program the Amiga
without having to become proficient at C, for example.

	Hope this helps a bit.

	Richard

p.s.  I wasn't really interested in it simply because I know C and
have the Manx compiler for the Amiga.  However, the lady who did the
demo (not an employee of the manufacturer, just a satisfied user) said
she really likes the program.  She had done some IFF pictures in a
paint program and was able to easily incorporate the pictures into her
program via CanDo.