I was astonished in the previous digest (discussing the issue of Rev documentation) that no mention was made of what to me is the finest computer language book I have seen for any language and that is "HyperTalk 2.x The Book," by Dan Winkler, Scot Kamins, and (in the second edition) Jeanne DeVoto.
It must have been a labor of love. It is not just the careful description of the HyperTalk vocabulary that makes this book so valuable, but the wide range of *meaningful* examples of each and every scripting word. It is as much a programming textbook as a vocabulary dictionary. And, like the best textbooks, it teaches with examples. Without this book HyperCard would have not been meaningful to me. I could think of no better contribution to Revolution than applying the same philosophy to: "Transcript The Book," by Jeanne DeVoto, et. al. However, due to the extensive expansion of the language in MC and Rev, this would now be a monumental task.
