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From: lchirica@polyslo.UUCP (Laurian Chirica)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: new book:  HYPERTALK Programming, by Dan Schafer
Message-ID: <1337@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 04:49:36 GMT
References: <2463@utastro.UUCP> <647@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Reply-To: lchirica@polyslo.UUCP (Laurian Chirica)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <647@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes:
>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)
> > 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 too would be interested in hearing recomendations/comparisons

I spent quit a bit of time scanning thru both books.  They are both
excellent.  Goodman's book is more comprehensive but, occasionally,
reads more like a repetition of the Apple's reference manual.  Shafer's
book concentrates on HyperTalk and gives it a more detailed treatment
with lots of examples.  You can also send for a diskette with all the
code published in the book AND all the PD and Shareware code MENTIONED in
the book.  (I am waiting for it).

 I would buy both of them (I did) but if I HAD TO choose just
one, I would pick Shafer's.

-- 
Laurian M. Chirica
Computer Science Department
California Polytechnic State University (CAL POLY)
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 - (805) 756-1332