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From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX is yuck (was Re: Next intro...)
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.185344.17436@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 90 18:53:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.174236.55@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au> <9041@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct12.202253.19725@ccad.uiowa.edu>
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho
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emcguire@ccad.uiowa.edu (Ed McGuire) writes:
>In article <9041@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) writes:
>
>>   Or did you try to learn using the Help stack? If so, you're a masochist.
>
>I admit it.  I'm a masochist.

So am I.  I *mostly* used the help stack to learn HyperTalk.  Then I
picked up ``The HyperCard Developer's Guide'' by Danny Goodman and
``HyperTalk'' by Lon Poole (the latter being much more helpful and a
great buy at ~$7.

>Then again, at this point it's easy for me to learn "one more language."

Especially if it's HyperTalk.

>So what has been done to disable scripting under HC2.0?  What's this about
>a "developers' version?"

There's an opaque button covering the buttons to select the advanced
user levels.  Check comp.sys.mac.hypercard for more info; this has been
hashed out there for the last couple of weeks.

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