Re: What language for kids to write baseball program?

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From: Scott Bronson
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:00

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In <haasec.719259065@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> haasec@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Beta) writes:

>bdavis@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (William Davis) writes:

>>Hi,

>>Any ideas on what language or tools they (I) might investigate using?
>>We have a Mac and the school has Apple IIe's, so it would be ideal if
>>the language/tools were available on both platforms.

>  This is a fairly simple question, in my mind at least...The language is
> BASIC.

Except that AppleSoft BASIC isn't on the Mac.  On the whole, the Mac
implementations of Basic don't use line numbers while the Apple ][
relies on them.  I would suggest either Pascal (good compilers for
both systems) or HyperTalk.

I've heard of HyperCard clones on the Apple ][ (by Roger Wagner
Software (??)) but I don't know how cross- compatible they are.  
For sheer ease and speed of development, HyperCard is just about
unbeatable.

	- Scott

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