At this point I can be really bitchy and ask why LiveCode is so daft as
to have top-down numbers on the stack:
sure slowed things down for my kids working with LiveCode in the Summer.
Richmond.
On 10/5/17 6:08 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
I suppose, but consider that we learned graphs all through school with a bottom
up left to right coordinate system, so that seems to me more natural. Also with
top down systems, you have to think that left to right numbers go up, but top
down numbers go up. So down is up. Kinda like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Bob S
On Oct 5, 2017, at 07:58 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Alejandro Tejada wrote:
In my humble opinion, after 12 years it has to be easier
to convince WC3 to change the SVG standard and adopt
Inkscape bottomleft page origin... :D
If there needs to be a bad guy here maybe the better finger-wagging would be
toward John Warnock, for approving a Postscript spec that uses a coordinate
system unlike anything else in the computing world, bifurcating the software
landscape into bottom-zero and top-zero camps.
And ever since the Postscript licensing debacle which eventually prompted
everyone else to join together to replace Postscript fonts with TrueType (not
to mention the dismally wonky PDF format), who doesn't enjoy picking on
Warnock? ;)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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