Exactly. I mean no bad will to our friend Jerry Daniels, but this is the
difficulty I have with his amazing Rodeo app builder - it may be too easy! I
feel with all the components already made, I'm not really creating anything,
but just paint by numbers and hooking it up to data. (actually I find i
WOW. I had a great holiday and then came back to a semantic argument over fun
as in easy or no effort versus fun as in enjoyable and a delight to do.
"It's just so much easier to be good at something you enjoy doing, and it is
absolutely possible to find programming fun, even when it's hard."
On 12/27/2010 10:06 AM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Richmondwrote:
Well; good, effective programming is rarely either EASY or FUN; and more
often
than not involves a lot of prolonged effort, thought, and hard work.
Programming is like playing tennis. I'm sure ther
Geoff,
I really like the way you describe things and follow you on this at 100%. About
the second part of your post, i would like to precise that, because its
semantic consistent syntax, LC let always us reduce the complexity of our code
to its best level (best readability, best execution speed
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Richmond wrote:
>
> Well; good, effective programming is rarely either EASY or FUN; and more
> often
> than not involves a lot of prolonged effort, thought, and hard work.
>
Programming is like playing tennis. I'm sure there are professional tennis
players who do
On 12/23/2010 11:27 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Richmond:
I don't know, it is much more the process, not the results. It has to be
seen as accessable, fun, intuitive, easy, startling.
Yes; but to me that sounds like all the cheap crap they rabbit on about
everywhere;
everything has to be 'fun
LiveCode
Subject: Re: What with all it's features and platforms I sometimes forget
On 12/23/2010 11:18 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
> Tony.
>
> This is both wonderful and disturbing news. What would it take for the
> rest of the world to give LC a fair look? Shackles? Those eye-poppin
Richmond:
I don't know, it is much more the process, not the results. It has to be
seen as accessable, fun, intuitive, easy, startling.
It also has to be seen as utterly capable; I get that. But those first
things first.
Craig
In a message dated 12/23/10 4:23:12 PM, richmondmathew...@gmail.co
On 12/23/2010 11:18 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Tony.
This is both wonderful and disturbing news. What would it take for the rest
of the world to give LC a fair look? Shackles? Those eye-popping gadgets
that were placed on Malcom McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange"?
Both?
Craig
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Tony.
This is both wonderful and disturbing news. What would it take for the rest
of the world to give LC a fair look? Shackles? Those eye-popping gadgets
that were placed on Malcom McDowell in "A Clockwork Orange"?
Both?
Craig
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What with all of Live Codes features and platforms I sometimes forget just how
powerful it is.
I am working on a project that has previously cost two people their jobs (one
quit and one was let go). The project is complex and requires 'hacking' into
our companies hardware devices to extract per
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