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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard Experts: Some Advise Please
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 08:11:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 08:11:03 1987
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Summary: Too much for HC


What you're trying to do is way beyond the capabilities of HyperCard.  First of
all, you're trying to create reports.  This is something that is really crippled
in HC as you're pretty much stuck to a choice between screen-image printing or
one of HC's standard label or column reports.  In the second place, you're
attempting relational operations.  This can be accomplished in HC; however, I
think that you will find that the amount of coding (and the performance) make
this for all intents and purposes "undoable".

HyperCard is a great little interactive information management system, a filer.
It is not a relational DBMS and is definitely not a report generator.

I find it very useful for simple, single-file tasks (such as the stacks that
come with it) but do not believe that it can compete with a DBMS in its present
incarnation.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team
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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed above are my own.  I don't know what (if any)
opinions my employer might have upon these subjects.