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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypertalk instructional book request
Keywords: hypertalk, book
Message-ID: <17873@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 88 23:26:23 GMT
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In article <3077@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ns@cat.cmu.edu (Nicholas Spies) writes:
>In re HyperCard books: ...so only books written by HyperCard team members
>or those with an inside track (Goodman) are worth getting... mmmm :-)

Actually, since I mentioned the books that were on MY reading list, I
have found another nifty quick reference guide done by Microsoft Press
and written by Lon Poole, who didn't have an inside track to my
knowledge.  It is one of the MS Press Programmer's Quick Reference
Series and is called simply "HyperTalk".  If someone out of the "inside
track" writes a good book then great, but I'll stick with those on the
inside track because they know what is right and wrong.  No one seems to
mind that Kernighan and Richie wrote THE C book: in fact everyone uses
their book as the bible of C.  Apple has done the samething with their
HyperTalk Script Language Reference Guide.  If you had a means of
checking on the motives of many of the HyperTalk authors, you would find
there to be lots of people out to make a buck who have accuracy as the
last thing on their minds... as their books attest.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer

>
>I tried to answer "div" problem with mail but couldn't: just try
>exp2(30) div 64 in message box ...then try 
>trunc(exp2(30) / 64) to see what div should have done (in H-C 1.2).
>
>
>
>-- 
>Nicholas Spies			ns@cat.cmu.edu.arpa
>Center for Design of Educational Computing
>Carnegie Mellon University