Perhaps I don’t quite know what is being expressed here, but nevertheless I think it chimes with the feeling I have when I see stuff on this list about linting, github, even LCB. It’s an alien world. It may also be the future. Increasingly I realise I belong to the past. Is it time to stop trying to keep up?
Puzzled Graham > On 31 May 2018, at 05:35, Ingar Roggen via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > The eminent historical fact is that HyperCard (still) is psycologically (and > intellectually) magical, while RunTime, and also LiveCode, it seems, attempt > to reduce all of it to technicalities. And although we live by > technicalities, nobody reaches but for magic in his dreams. Cut the threads > back and down to HyperCard completely and RT and LC vanish... > > Sendt fra min iPhone > >> 30. mai 2018 kl. 11:02 skrev Keith Martin via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >>> On 29 May 2018, at 17:57, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >>> >>> Ever since Hypercard I have loved the "do something to something else with >>> some other things" approach, and also that I don't have to worry about >>> variable typing, declaration and scope. >> >> Amen brother! This is an important part of the magic of xTalk – we should >> never forget just how magic-like it really is. >> >> k >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
