Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!apple!dan 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 References: <3074@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <69395@sun.uucp> <17537@apple.Apple.COM> <3077@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen) Distribution: na Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 32 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