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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: "Innovative software like Hypercard" [sic]
Keywords: Hypercard useless software white elephant
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Date: 12 Jul 90 15:41:34 GMT
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In article <103841@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
>???  If HyperTalk and BASIC are too difficult for novice programmers,
>what programming languages are not?

Nobody said "for the novice programmer".  We were discussing the "novice
user".  A "novice programmer" has already surmounted the biggest obstacle
a reasonably intelligent person faces: irrational fear of programming.
Only a small percentage of "novice users" overcome that fear (IMHO; I
have no documentation on this.)

My $0.02 on the novice programmer is that HyperCard is a nice environment,
cause good results can be had with very minimal effort.  This builds
confidence.



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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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