Richard Gaskin wrote:
When I was first transitioning to Transcript (back then it was called
MetaTalk) from a background of mostly SuperTalk and a little C and
Pascal (and all of it only on Mac), I whinged all over the discussion
list about how this was wrong and that was wrong and why couldn't they
just do it like it's done in HyperCard and why is the whole thing just
stupid!
Fortunately, RunRev's Kevin Miller and MetaCard Corp's Scott Raney had
far more patience than I. In each case where I was certain the language
was stupid they paitently walked me through how it got that way, how
much its platform-independent nature (and arguably superior object
model) sometimes meant I had to learn new ways of doing things.
Yeah. And then when I first started with Transcript/MetaCard, I was
SCREAMING and waking the neighbors and pounding my fist and pissing off
my husband. And Richard -- who was about a year ahead of me with
MetaCard -- patiently walked me through it and explained how the
differences from HyperCard were necessary, and etc etc... until I
learned it. And grew to love it.
And then, one of my clients called me on the phone, and was hollering
and screaming, and I walked him through it and explained...
Honest. :) I think we all did it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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