Retrospect (really, HyperCard)

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From: Richard Kennaway
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 16:19

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Retrospect looks useful, but I had to fight Hypercard to get it to show me
the stack that Chuq von Rospach posted recently.  I get error messages
"Cant understand arguments to command set" at the first card, and a few
cards later, "Cant understand what's after if".  After which the stack
grinds to a halt.

I eventually managed to step through all the cards manually...I think. 
Given the potential mazes the ingenious HyperCard programmer can weave, I
dont know if I can be sure I saw it all.

Mundane word-processor documents are more readable than any HyperCard
stack I've seen (and Theldrow is more fun :-).

What is HyperCard actually useful for?
-- 
Richard Kennaway                SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
uucp:	...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk	Janet:	kennaway@uk.ac.uea.sys

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