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From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: BASIC advice sought
Summary: consider HyperCard
Keywords: BASIC HyperTalk
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Date: 29 Aug 90 19:47:34 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.023503.7036@cbnewsm.att.com>
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In article <1990Aug28.023503.7036@cbnewsm.att.com> dhoerl@cbnewsm.att.com (david.f.hoerl) writes:
>I'm in the process of helping someone move from programmable calculators
>to the world of Mac. This person is starting with the CCS2 programmable 
>calculator program, but would like to move "on". C or Pascal is beyond
>this person at this point, but I think that BASIC might be OK. What's
>important is access to floating point (SANE extended) math and the abilty
>to call lots of previously defined subroutines.

Consider HyperCard and HyperTalk.  HyperTalk has some real limits, but
so does BASIC.  The advantages are that it is probably about the same
difficulty as BASIC but it lets you at much more of the Mac with a lot
less work.

Some might argue that HyperTalk teaches a few of the concepts of
object-oriented programming.  Particularly when HyperCard 2.0 finally
ships HyperCard becomes much more powerful.


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