Dumb Newbie Questions -- 3 of N

[Richmond Mathewson]

Coming from Scotland, on going to the USA (1993) I learnt about Hypercard
and what a 'pancake stack' was simultaneously. I Scotland we tend to eat
our drop scones individually. I have always thought of a 
Hypercard/Supercard/Metacard/RR
stack as a stack of playing cards (can't think why); having started with 
making holes
in Hollerith cards that was a fairly easy conceptual move.

And, by-the-by, in Scotland, we tend to refer to 'top shelves' when talking
about your third example. :)

As a middle-aged man, I am working extremely hard on developing either
a 'central shelf', or a 'middle stack' ! What my pupils in my school refer
to as my 'twins'.

Jim Bufalini wrote:
> Jacques Hausser wrote:
>
>   
>> ...Every name in our pet programming
>> language is an analogy: you don't plow your fields, you don't fasten
>> your buttons, and you cannot tear your cards in little bits (sometimes
>> I wish to do just that ! ).
>> And, to mention a linked question, in my view "parent script", whith
>> it's heritability dye, was not less logical than "behavior", just
>> emphasising (good english?) another characteristic of the same
>> feature. I don't see one nickname as more logical than the other one.
>>     
>
> And, let's not forget Stack. I mean what does that have to do with pancakes,
> chimneys, or well-developed women? ;-)
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini
>
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