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On Feb 9, 2013, at 7:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/9/13 6:52 PM, Jim Little wrote: >> >> >> Perhaps other, more experience LiveCoders, might weigh in on the subreddit. >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1873yt/best_programming_language_livecode_to_go_open/ > > I object to his list, which assumes RR has "invented" a new language, and to > most of his critique which doesn't appear to understand it. You could point > out that the language was actually invented by Apple Computer, and at its > peak had millions of users, dozens of printed books, its own forums on > several online services, and produced thousands of utilities and programs > over the years. Some were better than others, but that was because the > language was so easy that children wrote with it, but also so sophisticated > that programmers produced award-winning products. When Apple discontinued > support, the language lived on in via a third-party port to Linux, and was > eventually taken up by RunRev, expanded tremendously, and is now extremely > powerful under a deceptively simple syntax. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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 _______________________________________________ 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
