Janus,
Transcript has the abbreviated terms like "card,cd or background,bg"
like in Hypercard, and the syntax has a lot of the same variations,
but Transcript is a bit less forgiving with some forms that can
become ambiguous when leaving out "the". However, I have never run
into a problem with it when writing from scratch. However, there are
differences to Hypercard that make a direct translation a bit of
work. Backgrounds are a major difference in how they are implemented.
Dennis
On Dec 2, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Janus Jakaterina wrote:
Dennis, if I recall correctly HyperCard used to let
one script something like "go to the background of
this card" or something much shorter but more cryptic
such as "go bg this cd". Not sure about the syntax,
but my point is that HyperTalk was very forgiving.
Is Transcript similarly forgiving?
--- Dennis Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Problem 3: <warning - heresy follows> there's no
such thing as
"self-documenting, human-readable code". Sorry -
that's the way it is.
Xtalk comes pretty close, though. Even comes
pretty close to
"human-thinkable".
Even though Transcript is pretty verbose, I find
that I need to add
25-50% more characters as comments to be able to go
back and figure
out what I wrote easily. I don't see how it is
possible to have the
what convey the why, and even the what need some
help now and then.
Dennis
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