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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: SuperCard VS. ThinkPascal/TCL
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Date: 10 Feb 91 17:25:23 GMT
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David Phillip Oster writes in a message to All

DPO> In hypercard, globally visible procedure must be in the script 
DPO> of the home card of the stack. This is a single "file" limited 
DPO> to at most 32k. I am guessing that SuperCard has the same limit.

I believe that HC 2.0 allows more than one script to exist in the message hierarchy.

For me, the big question (as 600K for a stand-alone SuperCard app is at least
6 times greater then the overhead of using the TCL's in Think C/Pascal) is whether
the program in question can be written, maintained and expanded using SuperCard.
Unless SuperCard is so much easier in those areas that 600K vs 100K doesn't
matter, go with Think.


Lawson
 

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