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In article <1002@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>>>In article <6956@ut-ngp.UUCP> osmigo@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
>>>>3. Hypertalk is somewhat overrated. True, it's "easier" than C or Pascal, but
>>>>   in no sense of the word is it a "programming language" in the first place.

					blah, blah, blah etc.

Why does this happen?  Here's a new piece of software which represents new
thinking in computer use, marketing and existing customer-base support.  Why
has it garnered all these attacks?  As with any piece of software, I would
expect that those people who don't like it, won't use it.  Why is it that so
many folks are getting steamed over the enthusiasm that hypercard has
generated?  And the argument that says: "We can't let the world go crazy
over something so flawed" just doesn't wash.  Isn't clear by now that the
new ideas embodied in hypercard will prove, eventually, helpful and that
it's flaws will not corrupt, for evermore, the thinking and expectations of
its users.  This forum would be more useful if we didn't have to read all
this stuff.  There, my first and last contribution to this sort of
discussion . . .
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