Indeed. All good points. I first discovered, and started working with Metacard when my primary OS at work was SGI Irix. When we switched to Windows NT, it had already become Revolution, so I moved forward with that. It saddened me to see the *nix platforms go away, but there's only so much a small team can do. Therefore, the importance of going open source. I sure hope they make it.
Sent from my Pipo M2 On Feb 23, 2013 3:15 PM, "Richmond" <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/23/2013 09:58 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > >> Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more >> articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple >> flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the >> Apple fan-base? >> > > As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started as > a Windows > equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform. > > Interestingly enough I notice on the Wikipedia stub for Metacard it is > described as a "GUI Toolkit", > a very interesting term I have not encountered before; AND perhaps one > that RunRev should be > promoting rather than 'programming language' as it makes a lot more sense > - certainly it is one > I shall use henceforth whenever people ask me about Livecode. > > This: > http://www.scdi.org/languages/**metacard/<http://www.scdi.org/languages/metacard/> > is interesting in that it uses the phrase > > "development environment" which also makes a lot more sense than > 'programming language'. > > That does not seem to have been touched since 1997 and bears out what I > said above about > Metacard being, initially, non-Macintosh. > > "MetaCard is available for several operating systems including Windows > 95/NT, Windows 3.1, Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX, Irix, HP UNIX and AIX." > > and if this were true then: > > "/MetaCard was the language of the month in November 1997/." > > Why cannot RunRev Livecode be the development environment of the year 2013? > > Especially if the Open Source initiative works! > > Actually . . . come to think of things . . . I wonder why RunRev don't > contact people such as Vikki Dawson: > > http://designertoday.com/**reviews/review.archive/413/**metacard.aspx<http://designertoday.com/reviews/review.archive/413/metacard.aspx> > > who wrote so keenly about Metacard way-back-when, an micht dae again? > > Richmond. > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<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
