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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: new book:  HYPERTALK Programming, by Dan Schafer
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Date: 22 Feb 88 19:07:32 GMT
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In article <2463@utastro.UUCP> werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) writes:
>Yesterday,  I found a brand-new book in the HAYDEN MACINTOSH LIBRARY Books
>series titled:
>
>	HYPERTALK Programming, by Dan Schafer
>	 (includes Version 1.1; includes HyperTalk Language Poster)
>
>It is Copyright 1988, softcover, over 500 pages, 26 chapters with a
>readable layout - I haven't read enough of it yet to have an opinion
>on the contents yet.  I did not read the Goodman book, and, therefore,
>won't be able to compare them.  someone else may have an opinion, though,
>and I'd be interested to hear it.

I have both Goodman's and Schafer's books.  I think I like Schafer's better
in most ways, as it is more to the point and better for people who are
familiar with programming already.  I like the alphabetized list of all
keywords that is in the back of Schafer's book.

Still, there never seems to be enough information in any book to answer every
question I have, not even the stuff from Apple.  For instance, I had to
experiment myself to find out that when you make a new card, the openCard
message comes before the newCard message (seems kind of backwards to me).

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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