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 <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: > I, finally, got my copy of 'The Complete Hypercard 2.2 Handbook' by Danny > Goodman from the attic of my house in Scotland . . . involving, amongst > other things, having to stay in a bed-&-breakfast because there are tenants > in my house. > > Feels very good indeed to have my hands on it. > > Mind you not as good as to be able to settle down to some BASIC 4 with my > BBC Master Compact. > > So, I am, vaguely, working towards a possible book with something to do > with Livecode . . . > > I have started by reading the Goodman book properly (for the first time, > rather than dipping in and out). > > The blurb on the cover has 'A masterpiece of a book', and apart from the > fact that when anything is described as a "masterpiece" one knows the > reviewer hasn't read it critically, as-of-now it seems tediously complete, > but that is mainly because it is probably reasonable to assume that people > who want to do the sort of things Goodman's book was aimed at in 1993 know > an awful lot of things about using computers that people in 1993, on the > whole, did not. > > Quite a few of the chapters in the book now seem fairly redundant: > > Home Stack Author Utilities > > Introduction to External Resources > > and so on. > > But there is a lot of stuff that is "Old but Gold", but does need a fair > bit of checking with Livecode as it is now. > > At the risk of appearing slow moving I shall cross-check things against > both LC 7.1.4 and > > LC 8.1.0. > > I intend to release "chapters" as PDF documents for FREE (but copyrighted > to myself) as I get round to them. Whether they will ever be assembled into > a complete book has yet to be seen. > > Obviously this means that I will be even more of a "pain-in-the-bum" than > usual floating questions on this Use-List: I hope that you will bear with > me, and make helpful remarks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > So: to work: > > on page 779 Goodman writes about SANE: the Standard Apple Numerics > Environment. > > As Livecode is cross-platform is that relevant at all? > > All the functions that Goodman describes as SANE functions seem to be > present in Livecode. > > Richmond. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
