Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-24 Thread Richmond
On 24.08.2016 14:06, Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Richmond wrote: Quite a few of the chapters in the book now seem fairly redundant: Home Stack Author Utilities Introduction to External Resources Well that first one would be replaced with a chapter on how the LC IDE i

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-24 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Richmond wrote: > Quite a few of the chapters in the book now seem fairly redundant: > > Home Stack Author Utilities > > Introduction to External Resources > Well that first one would be replaced with a chapter on how the LC IDE is written in LC so how you can go a

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond, Very true. It's hard for those experienced enough to write a book, to know which details might confuse a newbie. The ones I like use a bunch of sort, real world, simple examples, to demonstrate how to create the code. Now is a great time to write a new one, now that v8 is nearing compl

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread Richmond
The problem, and it is a very real problem, is how to escape the trap that very many authors of programming manuals fall into: forgetting that their target audience probably does not know a lot of what they know, but, at the same time not trotting out a lot of stuff that sounds condescendin

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread Richmond
Guess that makes me the snake. R. On 23.08.2016 12:48, hh wrote: Richmond M. wrote Back to the Garden of Eden The big problem may be that you already bit into (the) apple. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit th

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread Antti Ilola
I have it in my bookcase since 90's among other computer books. There it is reminding me of those "good old days". 2016-08-23 12:37 GMT+03:00 Richmond : > I, finally, got my copy of 'The Complete Hypercard 2.2 Handbook' by Danny > Goodman from the attic of my house in Scotland . . . involving, am

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread hh
> Richmond M. wrote > Back to the Garden of Eden The big problem may be that you already bit into (the) apple. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pre