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From: rieman@boulder.Colorado.EDU (John Rieman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HyperCard/HyperTalk books
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Date: 23 May 89 23:35:09 GMT
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What's the consensus as to the best reference book for Hypercard/talk?
I'm looking for something concise, ala UNIX man pages -- command name,
parameters, brief description, maybe a simple example, cross-references.

What I find in the bookstores are mostly wordy, chatty accounts that
seem to be written as much to entertain as to enlighten (one book I looked 
at today started by telling how the author first met Bill Atkinson).  I'm
sure a lot of people enjoy that kind of writing, but I just don't have
time to plow through a thousand pages of wittiness to extract a hundred
pages of information.

Recommendations?

-John Rieman