Just an ideal hacker problem. Have you tried OpenAi or Gemini? Once just for fun tried asking OpenAI to create a structure for a problem using LiveCode, and the result was acceptable giving a coarse structure for the solving the problem.
Maybe those generative tools would recognise FoxPro as well. Please tell what you’ll find out. Reds Christer Pyyhtiä christe...@gmail.com > On 15. Mar 2024, at 17.15, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I tried to write a code converter from dBase (Foxpro) to what is now called > Livecode. I ran into at least one insurmountable issue. I forget exactly what > it was, but it was along the lines of certain conventions used in Foxpro that > had no parallel in Livecode or meant something totally different in Livecode. > For instance, Foxpro uses a convention called Macro Substitution, where > preceding a variable with an ampersand would at runtime replace the variable > with its contents. For instance: > > x = "Fox" > ? "&x.Pro” > > Would produce FoxPro. The trouble was that ampersand is *ALSO* used for > concatenation! How can I tell? Periods inside quotes are just periods > *unless* they are used in Macro Substitution. > > There were a couple others, like using $ for certain things. I came to the > conclusion that the process would be more complex than I wanted, if at all > possible, and in the end it would be easier to simple reproduce the > application from scratch. > > > Bob S > > > >> On Mar 15, 2024, at 7:39 AM, jbv via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> One detail I forgot in my question : code translation using >> ChatGPT or any other AI. >> >> Thanks, >> jbv >> >> >> Le 2024-03-15 10:36, jbv via use-livecode a écrit : >>> Hi list, >>> Has anyone tried to translate code from 1 version to >>> another, or from 1 language to another ? >>> Like from php 5 to php 8, or from php to LC ? >>> My question concerns mainly server scripts. >>> Thanks, >>> jbv >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
