Hi All, In the aftermath of indulging my impulse to respond to "it should only take one line in C", I got to thinking how much CompileIt helped me to expand my HyperTalk applications' capabilities and essentially invoke ToolBox commands & functions from within HyperTalk. I took out Danny Goodman's HyperCard Developers Guide and compared the C & Pascal externals source code with the CompileIt scripts I wrote to perform the same function or invoke the same ToolBox object.
IMFO, in terms of relative programmer efficiency, programming in xTalk/CompileIt is to programming in C as programming in C is to programming in assembler. My frustration with assembler came very quickly when I realized I was typing half a page of instructions to accomplish something I could do in one line of FORTRAN or PL/1. And so it was with C once I learned HyperTalk. Even in Pascal, which I much prefer to C, the overhead involved in writing externals was such I tried to avoid using them. Once I had CompileIt, I was anxious to write my next external, and stopped looking for workarounds to avoid them. Before Revolution, CompileIt was my second-most important application behind HyperCard. MC/RR were designed to minimize the need for externals, and I'm going into my redesign with the goal of eliminating all platform-specific aspects of OenoLog. However, it appears from the List traffic that many people still find the need for externals. I would be willing to pay a seperate license fee for a tool that would allow me to create externals scripted in Transcript. Rob Cozens, CCW "Where but America can the person who lost the popular vote become President without a coup?" _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
