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Re: HyperCard Experts: Some Advise Please

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From: walter jeffries
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1987 15:47
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In article <250@dbase.UUCP> drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>:
>I find it very useful for simple, single-file tasks (such as the stacks that
>come with it) but do not believe that it can compete with a DBMS in its present
>incarnation.
>Dennis Cohen
>Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
>dBASE Mac Development Team
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--- hmmm... from a disinterested source...
                                       atleast he's open about it.
For reference I've written much more than simple, single-file tasks in HC and
abandonded 4D and Excel in favor of HC for two projects already.  But, I must
agree, it's report features are very weak.
-Waltervj.
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From: waltervj@dartvax.UUCP (walter jeffries)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HyperCard Experts: Some Advise Please
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 10:47:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  4 10:47:23 1987
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