The future of LiveCode

[Peter M. Brigham]

I saw "HyperTalk -- The Book" in a bookstore [remember bookstores?] when I was saving up to get my first mac and bought it right away. I read it over one summer before I even had a computer, and when I finally got the machine I was off and running. Hypercard became my major tool from the get-go. I ended up turning the Hypercard FAQ into a searchable stack, which had some circulation for a while in the HC community. That exercise started me learning text parsing, as I had it set up to automagically take Peter Fleck's latest FAQ update and import it and have it sorted into cards with the proper formatting. I'd have the updated version of the stack ready within 15 minutes of his new release. Ah, the old days….

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Jul 20, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Tim Selander wrote:

> Yes, a fantastic book that really unlocked HC for me. It is the best computer book I have ever read!
> 
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
> 
> On 7/21/12 1:28 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
>> Professor Goldberg,
>> 
>> A bit daunting because of its size, but I learned HyperTalk from the truly wonderful book:  "HyperTalk The Book." By Winkler and Kamins, and later, our own, Jean DeVoto, who did the original RunRev dictionary.
>> 
>> I am a strong believer in learning from examples--after the basic theory.
>> 
>> Jim Hurley
>> Emeritus Professor of Physics, Univ. of California
> 
> 
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