Okay, I am sorry I misunderstood you. I do not like C or any of its form either. And I do not like all of the wasted text with curly braces.
Now that Apple has released Swift it is a little easier than C but you still need to have a C background to use it. John Balgenorth On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:28 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
