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I must be in a reflective mood today or something.  But I happened across a 
quote that expresses the difference in attitude between Mac systems and MSDOS
tty systems:

	"We must either institute conventional forms of expression or
	else pretend that we have nothing to express." -- George Santayana

People assume that because the Finder, say, has no command language syntax,
that it must be trying to pretend that there is no need for Human/machine
dialog.  This is not so, in my opinion--the Finder's language is simply
not text-oriented.  

The problem comes when you have an unstructured text-oriented language like
HyperTalk that *is* trying to pretend that what the human wants can be
intuited by the machine.  As the quote suggests, HyperTalk, in practice,
desperately needs to "institute conventional forms of expression."

Alastair Dallas