It's not just that many people who develop for mobile have already settled on their tools, e.g. Java, Objective-C or in some cases the Lua based platforms. Which means for pure ease of use they prefer to stay where they are even if overall they may save time/money by switching to RR. While you can use the code once argument with LC that is not always enough as some are reluctant to use a tool they have not heard much about. This is also in part related to the lack of books problem highlighted elsewhere.
There are also many other technical arguments which may or may not be disputed such as "High level languages drain the battery more quickly" - one which I heard recently. We chose LC because of the nature of our team which is a mix of CS and non-CS people and the ability to rapidly prototype GUI's on all platforms. If you have a team with a large mix of people then using a higher-level almost self documenting programming language has a number of advantages. However, these advantages may not apply to those who have grown up on Java or C++ and do not really want to learn anything else. Cheers, rod On 21 July 2012 12:01, Pierre Sahores <s...@sahores-conseil.com> wrote: > Probably a true worldwide diagnostic, especially applicable in France too... > > Le 19 juil. 2012 à 22:07, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > >> It's my personal opinion that we ought to be making a much bigger effort to >> improve education across the board, and no, more money does not accomplish >> that goal. California has one of the highest per capita budgets for >> education, and yet one of the worst records. If spending more money fixed >> things, California would be a glowing model of socialist success! >> >> If we teach our children how to analyze problems and formulate solutions, we >> will be in a much better place to teach them all things. Our kids need not >> only job skills, but a sound work ethic, and our policies are what teach >> them exactly the opposite. >> >> I think the current system is broken in California, and in most states, and >> standing in the way are public unions who are in bed with the politicians, >> so we cannot get rid of the incompetent administrators and policy makers. >> Ever. Until we get rid of the public unions. Nothing is going to change >> until the incompetent are replaced with the competent. > > -- > Pierre Sahores > mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 > www.sahores-conseil.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Dr Rod McCall Researcher in in-car, mixed reality technology and gaming Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust University of Luxembourg Blog: www.rodmc.com twitter:rodlux Publications and Information available on my blog _______________________________________________ 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
