On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > Who do you think is sniveling and exactly > how fun is if for you to say “it burns. it burns!”? > > And who are you saying it to me because the > code does not work or LiveCode? Either way > what makes it so fun for you? >
No, not at all. It's the C. Any C. Especially working in text with C. "snivel" was the best word I could come up with for Gollum's voice/tone from the Lord of the Rings movie (I think they were binding him with elven rope, or some such.). I've used, learned, and forgotten more languages that I can recall over the years--including C and C++ a couple of times each, raw postscript, and coding in LaTeX (from which the [probably mis-syntaxed] "\snivel" line is drawn). After having written a mailmerge in C++ (or maybe it was C; whatever LyX is written in), my reaction to *any* text manipulation in C for the rest of my life will probably be that of a vampire to a Crucifix . . . C has some wonderful features. I'd particularly like to be able to use it's variable scoping in livecode. (hmm, that may be all :). I've been personally told by Dennis Ritchie that Ken would agree with my complaint that the names of mkdir and rmdir in Unix are bugs, as commands that important should have two letter names. But I truly hope to go the rest of my life without writing or even reading, another line of C. It burns. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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
