mark@hyper.UUCP (Mark Mendel) (11/26/87)
HyperText is a wonderfully designed language! In addition to programming HyperCard with it, I have been using it as a psuedo-code language in design specifications at work. I have found it far superior to any other language for specifying communicating parallel processes. [In my case, various components in a network] One complaint, however. The "put" command is just to wordy and hard to read. For my psuedo-code, I have found the more traditional '=' to be much more readable, particularly for sequences of mathematical assignments. For boolean expressions, I alway use "is" and "is not" to avoid confusion. The "put" form is nice in some situations, particulary when "put ... after" is later used on the same variable. But I'd really like to see the "=" form as alternative in the next version of HyperCard. Please? -- Mark G. Mendel, ihnp4!umn-cs!hyper!mark, Network Systems Corporation (612)-424-4888 x2779