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From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Hypercard and Hyperstudio
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Date: 21 Mar 91 06:30:09 GMT
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mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:
>
>To answer both of your HyperCard GS/ HyperStudio  questions:
>
>HyperStudio, I have heard, is easier to program than HyperCard...
>I have HyperStudio, but I've never programmed HyperCard.
>
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HyperCard-IIGS (HCGS) and HyperStudio (HS) are two totally different
approaches to the same problem. HCGS is admittedly MUCH more powerful; its
also much more complex to use. Each button gets its instructions from a
"script", a program written in a language called HyperTalk. Since its a bona
fide language, with structure, it would take an awefully long time to explore
every possibility.

HS uses the 'point and shoot' method to program buttons. You tell the button
what to do by doing it once. Really easy. I can plot down some pretty complex
buttons in no time with HS, with no effort. To do the same with HCGS would be
non-trivial.

HCGS vs. HS...? What do you need it FOR? Who's going to be programming it? Do
you want to learn programming? Ask yourself these things first.

One final thought: You MUST own HCGS to use its stacks. You don't have to own
HS to use its stacks.  

Think about it.

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