On Thursday, December 27, 2012, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 12/27/12 9:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> Nah, it's left to right.
>>
>
> Heretic.
>
Now wait a minut . . . There's no reason to accuse him of using emacs . . .
:)
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On Thursday, December 27, 2012, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Nah, it's left to right
Harumph.
all variants on two-dimensional thinking . . .
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On 12/29/12 7:06 AM, Nigel Soden wrote:
Anyway, the rant is over and it cost me 49 dollars. Cracker's for the next week.
There are almost always free options for the most common things,
including calendars. While you are still learning, I'd hate to see your
groceries suffer unnecessarily. Th
Dear Nigel Soden,
I see that you have got yourself "all hot and sweaty"; possibly rather
too soon :)
Have you had a look here?
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons
sincerely, Richmond.
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>From OxfordDictionaries.com:
How many words are there in the English language?
There is no single sensible answer to this question. It's impossible to count
the number of words in a language, because it's so hard to decide what actually
counts as a word. Is dog one word, or two (a noun me
I thought English was somewhere around the order of 38,000, not counting
technicial terms? I wonder how many of the 500,000 words are actually
variations or tenses of another? And then there is this: Published in 1604,
Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall contained roughly 2,500 words, each
m
Hi Keith. Being in IT for as long as I have, I do not think the difficulty is
in enticing anyone to try Livecode. The real difficulty as I see it is
threefold. First, development companies are typically standardized around the
big ones, C and it's variants, and Java. If you want a job as a devel
I actually think the way you do Peter, messages rising up from the bottom to
the top, but for someone new referencing a flow chart (I believe someone on the
list made one up one time and posted it) I felt it might be better to put it in
those terms.
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Peter M.
On 12/28/2012 12:34 PM, Keith Clarke wrote:
I know I'm not alone in having great difficulties in getting experienced
developers to withhold their judgement on LiveCode being anything more than
hobby-ware.
'hobby-ware'; well, yerrs, if all one is looking at are baby things for
teaching positi
I know I'm not alone in having great difficulties in getting experienced
developers to withhold their judgement on LiveCode being anything more than
hobby-ware.
If RunRev want to bring developers across the great divide, there must be a
bridge from where the masses reside to the brave new wor
On 12/27/12 8:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3:25:35 PM, you wrote:
Jerry Daniels called this the difference between "earth worshippers" and
"sky worshippers". He was clever like that.
I've always thought of it as front-to-back myself, which I guess takes
me o
Nah, it's left to right.
On Dec 27, 2012 7:15 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
> On 12/27/12 8:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> Jacque-
>>
>> Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3:25:35 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> Jerry Daniels called this the difference between "earth worshippers" and
>>> "sky worshippers". He was
On 12/27/12 9:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Nah, it's left to right.
Heretic.
On Dec 27, 2012 7:15 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
On 12/27/12 8:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3:25:35 PM, you wrote:
Jerry Daniels called this the difference between "earth wor
I have written a book titled "Computer Programming Made Ridiculously Simple
with LiveCode." It presently is in draft format consisting of two files, one
of text (about 168 pgs) and one of 100 figures. It is a getting-started manual
designed for the LiveCode beginner. I have not as yet publish
Jacque-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3:25:35 PM, you wrote:
> Jerry Daniels called this the difference between "earth worshippers" and
> "sky worshippers". He was clever like that.
I've always thought of it as front-to-back myself, which I guess takes
me out of the worshipper categories.
Excuse
On 12/27/12 5:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
Interesting. I mostly visualize it the opposite way, with the buttons
& fields on the lowest level and then the card, background, and stack
scripts higher and higher, with the engine at the top catching
everything not handled by scripts, and frontscrip
On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> Concerning the message path and objects, it also helps me to think about
> where the highest object (the stack script being the lowest and last to
> receive a message, barring back scripts) where shared code can be accessed by
> the objects o
On 12/28/2012 12:21 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Nigel-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 11:34:34 AM, Jacque wrote:
In 4-6 weeks you'll know what you're doing, I'm sure of it.
Actually, I'll bet in 6 weeks you'll be paying this forward and
helping the folks who have come on board since that time.
I th
Nigel-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 11:34:34 AM, Jacque wrote:
> In 4-6 weeks you'll know what you're doing, I'm sure of it.
Actually, I'll bet in 6 weeks you'll be paying this forward and
helping the folks who have come on board since that time.
I think of LiveCode as implementing pseudocode i
Bob-
Thursday, December 27, 2012, 2:02:30 PM, you wrote:
> (Stripy green and white?? BARTENDER! I'll have what he's drinking!)
Note to self: do NOT follow Bob down that rabbit hole...
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Thursday, December 27, 2012, 1:03:38 PM, you wrote:
> Frankly, I tend to think of each object on my 'card' in my 'stack' as
> some sort of domestic appliance:
Note to self: do NOT follow Richmond down that rabbit hole...
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Especially after a few pints of that Scottish ale you drink! (Stripy green and
white?? BARTENDER! I'll have what he's drinking!)
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Richmond wrote:
> Wow: all those Levels!
>
> I have always thought of an object as a bag of sweets; and each sweet has its
> own c
On 12/27/2012 10:45 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
Nigel,
Jacque about said it all, I just want to add. I was in the same boat as you
a little over a year ago. That 4-6 week thing was about what it took me to
get going. Looking at examples, some stick-to-it-ness and help from the fine
people on this li
On 12/27/2012 10:17 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
Dammit! Now it makes sense!
Yeah; kinda spoils the mystique :(
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:44 AM, kee nethery wrote:
ZX81
CPU chip was made by Zilog (thus the "Z").
The first Sinclair used the Z80. The Z80 chip was "Z80" because it was binary
Nigel,
Jacque about said it all, I just want to add. I was in the same boat as you
a little over a year ago. That 4-6 week thing was about what it took me to
get going. Looking at examples, some stick-to-it-ness and help from the fine
people on this list was all it took. We talked about this at RR
Hi Nigel. It helps me to see cards as forms. Also, you do not exactly *have to*
embed you code in buttons and fields. You can put all of your nuts and bolts
code in the stack script if you like, but it makes large complex apps more
difficult to manage, and there is the downside that extremely la
N! You just insulted my favorite place to hang out! ;-)
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Nigel Soden wrote:
> All of which would be marvellous to behold while enjoying a pint in a
> traditional pub alongside the canal than in these Sport TV infested excuses
> of human gathering.
_
Dammit! Now it makes sense!
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:44 AM, kee nethery wrote:
> ZX81
>
> CPU chip was made by Zilog (thus the "Z").
>
> The first Sinclair used the Z80. The Z80 chip was "Z80" because it was binary
> compatible with the Intel 8080. The ZX81 was a Z80 CPU with more stuff a
On 12/27/12 2:24 AM, Nigel Soden wrote:
Why could they not
stay with standard computer technology terms. You gonna have to learn
them sometime.
I snipped most of it, but first off, I really enjoyed your post. Not
because you are suffering but because it was so well written and
explained exact
The processor was a Z80, and the computer was released in 1981. Not sure about
the X.
On Dec 27, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
> >Odd. Why would their first computer start with a Z and have the number 81?
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ZX81
CPU chip was made by Zilog (thus the "Z").
The first Sinclair used the Z80. The Z80 chip was "Z80" because it was binary
compatible with the Intel 8080. The ZX81 was a Z80 CPU with more stuff added
into it, thus, the ZX81 (presumably eXtra and 81 because that was the next
number).
Back
On 12/27/2012 07:31 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
Come to think of it, no one would buy a computer named the A1. Although it
worked pretty good for steak sauce...
I remember the first real computer (i.e. not a bunch of Hollerith cards)
I got my sweaty, teenage paws onto
was called a Research Mac
On 12/27/2012 10:24 AM, Nigel Soden wrote:
BUT, this is what is frustrating me. WHY AM I FINDING IT SO DIFFICULT TO
UNDERSTAND THE FLIPPING LANGUAGE. I keep tripping up on the explanation in the
multitudes of examples. for example.
Well, one of the reasons it that it does NOT have a "Flip
Come to think of it, no one would buy a computer named the A1. Although it
worked pretty good for steak sauce...
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Richmond wrote:
> On 12/27/2012 06:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
>> Odd. Why would their first computer start with a Z and have the number 81?
>
> E
On 12/27/2012 06:37 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:
Odd. Why would their first computer start with a Z and have the number 81?
Excuse Me! The Sinclair computer was made in Scotland, Dundee, to be
precise, and, as
a Scotsman, while privately thinking that a first computer being called
"Z81" is daft,
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From: Nigel Soden
To: use-livecode
Sent: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 3:25 am
Subject: Learning LiveCode
Folks
I'm sitting in the confession box, hidden from the view to the confessors.
(haha).
I've been in this game since the days of the first Sinclair computer, remembe
Odd. Why would their first computer start with a Z and have the number 81?
Bob
On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Nigel Soden wrote:
> Folks
>
> I'm sitting in the confession box, hidden from the view to the confessors.
> (haha).
>
> I've been in this game since the days of the first Sinclair co
Le 27 déc. 2012 à 09:24, Nigel Soden a écrit :
> I'm sitting in the confession box, hidden from the view to the confessors.
> (haha).
> P.S. Can I leave the confession box now?
Hum... It seems the place is free. Let's get in...
> I've been in this game since the days of the first Sinclair com
Hopefully you'll get over the difference in terms used in LiveCode compared to
other languages. I think it would be the right tool to use for bible study
applications.
As an aside, you should look at Unity 3D. It's not remotely right for the apps
you're talking about, but it is good fun to play
Folks
I'm sitting in the confession box, hidden from the view to the confessors.
(haha).
I've been in this game since the days of the first Sinclair computer, remember
it. The ZX81. At the time I was learning to fly and progressing to become a
Commercial Pilot. Then mine eyes beheld this be
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