General approach question

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 4/21/05 6:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Cards may seem more "natural" to someone coming from HyperCard because 
>> with HC you had no choice:  it had neither arrays nor custom 
>> properties to store them in, and the built-in sort command only worked 
>> on cards; you had to use an external for anything else.
> 
> Aw, it isn't *that* bad. You can sort containers in HC; as a matter of 
> fact, Rev's "sort" command is taken verbatim from HyperCard. "Sort lines 
> of..." "sort words of..." etc. Compatibility and all.

My bad.  I must have been living in the past -- remember, I moved to 
SuperCard the day it was release in May '89.

If HC had a sort command then why were there so many sort externals 
floating around?

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