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From: EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ed Nilges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard 2.0
Message-ID: <12216@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 19:08:25 GMT
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In article <951@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>, cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. Cohill) writes:

>
>I would just get out my backup disk and copy the 1.x version back onto
>my hard disk.  No muss, no fuss, no messy cleanup.
>
>If you don't make backups, don't try to blame somebody else for your
>problems.....
>
No, I don't buy it.  First of all, I am willing to live with this
enforced conversion to 2.0.  It's got a lot more features that I
need.  Secondly, even if I did have a backup, that does not change
the main point.  This is that a professional programmer will follow
the rule of the older professions, "above all, not knowingly to do
harm."  I know that in actual recent practice, doctors and lawyers
don't observe this rule, but we still expect the surgeon not to
open up our chest and say, "I'm not operating on this turkey, he's
a smoker!": we expect the lawyer to inform us of our rights.

When the decision was made to go ahead and convert you are for-
cing naive users into 2.0 in all sorts of situations you cannot
predict...willingly causing harm.  Since I'm not a naive user,
I have plenty of options including manually reconstructing the
stack with version 1.0, perhaps assisted by special-purpose
scripts.  Other users won't be so lucky.