Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
- Subject: Re: Just submitted this to BugReporter as feature request - comments...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 23:29:16 -0500
On 4/10/04 11:13 PM, "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 4/10/04 3:03 PM, "Jim Witte" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> As for the 'put' command - I have never liked AS's 'set' command - it
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>> makes sense to *set* properties such as the height of an object. It
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>> does not however make as much sense to "set" a variable.
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> It makes perfect sense. You are setting the value of a variable to a value.
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> It's quite natural. Do you put five minutes into a timer? Of course not, you
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> set the timer for 5 minutes. That's the real way you set values.
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Well, that's the way _you_ think of it; and Jim thinks of it a different
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way. And don't get Howard Gardner started, or we'll be here all night.
It's not thinking thing. You set a timer. That's just how you do it. Hence
my example.
Actually, I don't really care. What I *do* care about is the perennial
petitions and pining for HyperTalk and HyperCard. It takes up space that
could be used for something useful. Like duck puns.
Honestly, other than Myst, I never got it. Oh, I tried. And I can see where
it could be useful, just ask Kagi. But the paradigm always escaped me. No,
please, don't try to explain it. Like I said, I get its usefulness. But I
never liked using Hypercard apps. I never liked trying to use Hypertalk. The
IDE made my head hurt almost as bad as Frontier. But then, a sharp stick in
the eye is better than Frontier.
Hypercard is dead, long live SuperCard. Have the funeral and move on.
john
--
"Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move,
fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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