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Article #22212APPLE: a minor HyperText enhancement request
From: Mark Mendel
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1987 21:45
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1987 21:45
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HyperText is a wonderfully designed language! In addition to programming HyperCard with it, I have been using it as a psuedo-code language in design specifications at work. I have found it far superior to any other language for specifying communicating parallel processes. [In my case, various components in a network] One complaint, however. The "put" command is just to wordy and hard to read. For my psuedo-code, I have found the more traditional '=' to be much more readable, particularly for sequences of mathematical assignments. For boolean expressions, I alway use "is" and "is not" to avoid confusion. The "put" form is nice in some situations, particulary when "put ... after" is later used on the same variable. But I'd really like to see the "=" form as alternative in the next version of HyperCard. Please? -- Mark G. Mendel, ihnp4!umn-cs!hyper!mark, Network Systems Corporation (612)-424-4888 x2779
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!hyper!mark From: mark@hyper.UUCP (Mark Mendel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: APPLE: a minor HyperText enhancement request Message-ID: <688@hyper.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 16:45:15 EST Article-I.D.: hyper.688 Posted: Wed Nov 25 16:45:15 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:29:44 EST Organization: Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN Lines: 20