Sorry, I got that from an old thread and forgot to change it. By the way I didn’t say in my story that Knuth used Algol and Cobol for his algorithm, and I translated the Algol one (looks a bit like LiveCode, even today…)
> On 3 Feb 2017, at 17:20, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Why is this post called Supercard 4.8 Public Beta?? > > Bob S > > >> On Feb 3, 2017, at 08:15 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Only slightly OT, quite near my first encounter with computers at all, and >> at the very beginning of my encounter with High Level Languages (do people >> still use that expression?), I translated Knuth’s algorithm for calculating >> the date of Easter into LISP 1. It would be a lot easier to do in LiveCode. >> As this is probably of limited interest, I have not spent the $2.99 needed >> to retrieve the original article, but maybe someone might want to: >> >> https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm >> <https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm> >> >> I did not know either of the languages involved when I started the exercise. >> >> Anyway that experience makes me endorse one of Richmond’s way of introducing >> people to LiveCode, quoted below. >> >> Graham >> >> PS As an exercise for the reader (do people still use **that** expression?) >> you can work out from this story approximately how old I am. >> >> >>> On 16 Oct 2016, at 13:30, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Another thing that is quite instructive is to download some daft game from >>> the internet written in >>> who-knows-what and get the kids, first, to consider its functionality, and >>> secondly, how they might >>> possibly achieve that functionality in 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
