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From: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Usenet Programmers Guide
Keywords: Hypercard
Message-ID: <3993@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 02:53:31 GMT
References: <441@diemen.cc.utas.oz>
Reply-To: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <441@diemen.cc.utas.oz> paul@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Paul Stevenson) writes:
>
>All this talk about MacWrite vs plain text vs ...
>
>Why not use Hypercard?
>  Its free with every new mac.
So is TeachText.  And everyone has a text editor ...

>  It allows the combination of text and graphics
So does TeachText, so does MacWrite, so does Word, etc.

>  AND it lets you launch sample programs to demonstrate the code displayed in 
>    the HyperCard fields.

Sure, if you've got 5 Meg of Ram ...
>
>Unless I've missed something HyperCard seems pretty much perfect for this sort 
>of guide.
>
Sorry to seem cynical, but HyperCard seems much less perfect to me than
a simple printed reference manual.  A reference manual doesn't eat up
a precious 1/2 - 1 Meg of RAM, you can read it AND your application's
source at the same time,  you can read it without turning your Mac on,
you can make copies of it without a printer, etc. ...

Sure, a HyperCard version will probably exist, and it may very well be
an effective way to present the Guide.  But, frankly, I side with Isaac
Asimov and all the other folks who think that the printed page will be
hard to replace.
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