BBC article about HyperCard
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I tried it the other way. LC is all I've ever known and I can dream in it. For a while I dabbled in C and while I didn't have to learn about repeat structures and other logical processes, the syntax was so foreign that it took me 2 days to write one single line of code that would even compile.
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It has been demonstrated over and over again that being monoglotLC is all I've ever known
can restrict your cognitive development, and, should you find
yourself where speakers speak another language really put you at a severe
disadvantage.
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Re: BBC article about HyperCard
Jacque is modest. She was a HC expert before MC/LC was even a dream.
She may have dreamt in HC in the late 80's.
But, like me, who only dabbled in a micro Basic variant a long time ago, she is basically monoglot; HC/MC/LC are fundamentally the same. I only need one "language" (I fold in HyperTalk) and I spend a lot time speaking them each week.
It all depends on what you need. The shame of it is that LC could be so powerful as a FIRST language. It would form the basis for learning programming of any kind. It should be taught all over the world in high school, and then students could migrate, or not, to whatever either suits them or is required of them. I believe that far more students would enjoy, never mind pursue, programming at one level or another if only they did NOT have to learn virtually any other language first.
Craig
She may have dreamt in HC in the late 80's.
But, like me, who only dabbled in a micro Basic variant a long time ago, she is basically monoglot; HC/MC/LC are fundamentally the same. I only need one "language" (I fold in HyperTalk) and I spend a lot time speaking them each week.
It all depends on what you need. The shame of it is that LC could be so powerful as a FIRST language. It would form the basis for learning programming of any kind. It should be taught all over the world in high school, and then students could migrate, or not, to whatever either suits them or is required of them. I believe that far more students would enjoy, never mind pursue, programming at one level or another if only they did NOT have to learn virtually any other language first.
Craig
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Re: BBC article about HyperCard
I have Google Translate! I was speaking to someone at the local Farmer's Market last week in Hmong.
So there.
So there.
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Beats me Jacque, I only know how to say enough in several languages to get my face slapped
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Not bad at all.last week in Hmong
I speak Hong Kong Phooey fluently.
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