why metacard?

[erik hansen]

--- Karl Becker <karl at karlbecker.com> wrote:

> Oh, and as far as why MetaCard is the stuff...
> It uses the exact same 
> syntax as HyperCard (which I learned on) , but
> it extends it in so 
> many great and easy-to-program ways I can't
> help but not use it. 
> Other languages often frustrate me with their
> strange syntax and ways 
> of dealing with data... I can find nothing
> better than writing, "put 
> char 1 of theWord" since doing the same thing
> would be plenty harder 
> in any other programming language.

just fooling around with the msg, it seems you
can leave off  "the"s (<the> topLeft of bg btn
"og") and it works, although the literature
suggests using the "the"s. 

since all of my HC stacks were carefully pruned
of "the"s except where absolutely needed to
execute, i wonder whether others went back and
did "the" restoration work before porting scripts
to MetaCard?

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erik at erikhansen.org                 http://www.erikhansen.org

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