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From: jnixon@andrew.ATL.GE.COM (John F Nixon)
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Subject: Re: What Apple is trying to tell us....
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Date: 10 Apr 90 12:30:02 GMT
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nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:

>I found the book [Complete Hypercard] to be really useful. ...
>Of course, if you do not take the
>time to comprehend what you read or if you have limited programming
>ability, this book would not mean anything to you.

Hummm, it sounds like CH is a technical treatment of Hypercard, but later
we read

>But the
>Apple Book fills in technical holes that the Complete Hypertalk (sic) 
>reference was not intended to address.

I am curious as to what you believe CH to be; is it a technical book on
Hypercard, or is it an introductory reference?  It seems much too thick to
be a useful introduction, but you seem to imply that it does not contain
complete technical details.  I would hate to buy CH, and then find I need
other reference material (especially in a book that calls itself Complete).

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