Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!boulder!alumni.colorado.edu!fozzard From: fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: HyperCard Authoring...The Brouhaha Message-ID: <26835@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 24 Sep 90 20:47:40 GMT References: <30754@athertn.Atherton.COM> <45057@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 29 In article <45057@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew) writes: >dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes: > >>1) As quoted in Danny Goodman's Book Bill Atkinson said that if Apple EVER >> stopped shipping HyperCard for free he could do so himself. >> a) Did this cover all versions of HyperCard say 2.x and beyond? >> b) By shipping HyperCard 2.0 with scripting hidden does Apple keep to the >> spirit of whatever agreement was made with Mr. A? > >I would say b). I have no idea about a) > Just a linguistic curiousity: A casual reader might be confused by Chuq's answer; "b)" is not an answer to a multiple choice question, but is itself a question. So is Chuq just restating a question when he says "I would say b)"? Of course, all you hypertalk programmers out there recognized this immediately as being of the form "I would say ". Just a cute difference between the casual reader and the programmer mentality in linguistic expression! Since I am both, I could hardly resist the comparison. -- ======================================================================== Richard Fozzard "Serendipity empowers" Univ of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA R/E/FS 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303 fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu (303)497-6011 or 444-3168