The Ghost of Danny Goodman
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:43 am
As I am currently in a physically bad shape, in the process of recovering from COVID-19 (in spite of being vaccinated),
I am taking the time, probably if I am completely honest, to read Danny Goodman's "Complete HyperCard 2.2" book,
which I possess as a physical book.
I am NOT reading it to learn HyperTalk, a horribly outdated subset of what the LiveCode language has to offer.
I am NOT reading it to learn about MacOS 7 as that had its day a long time ago.
I am reading it as a teach-yourself manual, and am impressed by:
1. The sheer clunkiness and needless verbosity of it.
2. The GOOD things that are there and are said quite well.
3. "the samples provided" . . . that are God-knows-where now . . . but, instead of being random samples
flung into the void, were obviously very closely intertwined with the text.
Here are older versions:
https://archive.org/details/The_Complet ... d_Handbook
https://archive.org/details/completehypercar03edgood
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https://archive.org/details/mac_Danny_G ... Guide_1988
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Other 'guff':
https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_S ... RCARDI.PDF
https://hypercard.org/HyperTalk%20Reference%202.4.pdf
http://www.apple2.pl/books/hypercard.pdf
I am taking the time, probably if I am completely honest, to read Danny Goodman's "Complete HyperCard 2.2" book,
which I possess as a physical book.
I am NOT reading it to learn HyperTalk, a horribly outdated subset of what the LiveCode language has to offer.
I am NOT reading it to learn about MacOS 7 as that had its day a long time ago.
I am reading it as a teach-yourself manual, and am impressed by:
1. The sheer clunkiness and needless verbosity of it.
2. The GOOD things that are there and are said quite well.
3. "the samples provided" . . . that are God-knows-where now . . . but, instead of being random samples
flung into the void, were obviously very closely intertwined with the text.
Here are older versions:
https://archive.org/details/The_Complet ... d_Handbook
https://archive.org/details/completehypercar03edgood
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https://archive.org/details/mac_Danny_G ... Guide_1988
-----
Other 'guff':
https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_S ... RCARDI.PDF
https://hypercard.org/HyperTalk%20Reference%202.4.pdf
http://www.apple2.pl/books/hypercard.pdf