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[Mikey]

First, as far as Jeanne's status goes, I have several (three?  four?)
of the Waite Group's books on HC/HT still sitting on one of my
bookshelves...somewhere.  Jeanne's contributions to "Tricks of the
HyperTalk Masters" were invaluable in my ability to finish my Senior
year Independent Research project and ultimately get my TA ride for
grad school, my internship, and my first consulting gig.

Please reread last post.  I am not arguing that RR is better or worse
than HC (in this thread anyway).  The post specifically refutes
Jeanne's argument that the syntax permitted in HT is wrong.  It would
seem to me that if y'all thought the syntax was a mistake then it
should have been addressed somewhere.  As it is, I don't recall seeing
anything from The Big Three that would, but then again, there were
only tens of thousands of pages written on HC and HT, and I can't
remember all of them...

I'm also not arguing that the language shouldn't evolve.  I am
bemoaning the fact that the syntax is more rigid in some areas.
However, the syntax issues are just an annoyance compared to some of
the bugs in the IDE.

For all of that, it's still light years better than having to use C++ every day.
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