Eric- Thursday, June 23, 2005, 11:20:16 AM, you wrote:
EE> There's even an entire article on macTech "Comparing HyperTalk to Pascal" which EE> says, EE> "Both Pascal and HyperTalk provide powerful if-then-else control structures EE> with very similar syntax." EE> "The specification and calling of user defined functions in Pascal and EE> HyperTalk is almost identical." EE> http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.04/04.09/HyperTalk,Pascal/ EE> "Based on the comparisons presented above between Pascal and HyperTalk, it EE> should be clear that HyperTalk is indeed a powerful language with many EE> similarities to Pascal." EE> I could keep looking, but I think I've made my point. Er... hardly. Conditionals are what makes something a programming language. This is what separates, for example, basic from html. Simply saying that a language has an if-then-else contstruct doesn't make it Pascal. Also, at the time the MacTech article was written Pascal was *the* way to program the Macintosh. Those of us programming in Lightspeed C had to shoehorn our routines in to match the Pascal routines in the toolbox. The articles of that vintage were aimed at the "all right... you know how to program the Mac in Pascal, here's where HyperTalk differs from it and how it's similar" audience, so the comparisons are de rigeur. *Especially* since the article is titled "Comparing HyperTalk to Pascal". -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
