Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
This has been addressed on this list before. Different people have different views. I don’t think LC will ever be one of the major development platforms. I believe the general reasons that C++ and Java developers generally do not want to learn LC are first that LC does not give the developer

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
I may have misread the question. But still relevant I think. Bob S On Nov 8, 2014, at 10:32 , Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.commailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: This has been addressed on this list before. Different people have different views. I don’t think LC will ever be one

LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode on the computer

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Please, add my vote to this ! Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr a écrit : Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
- Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Where-How-and-with-Who-tp4685530p4685533.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing

RE: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread John Dixon
I think this is a great idea - just a few days ago I was answering a concern of a potential client, who as part of wanting to know that LiveCode was a valid choice as a platform, wanted to know how many people (especially professional programmers) were using it So, Dave ... how did you

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Jacques Hausser
Hi Francis A first indication is the number of people credited for supporting the open source version in the about box: 868. (= number of items of the last line of fld “Credit” of cd 1 of stack “revAbout”) Jacques Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr a écrit :

RE: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Where-How-and-with-Who-tp4685530p468.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/2014, 4:24 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: In my reply didn't use any numbers (didn't think of Jacque's idea of citing the number of coders who supported the open source project). While I'd love to take credit for all good ideas, this was the other Jacque* -- the one with the s after his name.

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Where-How-and-with-Who-tp4685530p4685558.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Nov 7, 2014, at 8:49 AM, John Dixon wrote: I think this is a great idea - just a few days ago I was answering a concern of a potential client, who as part of wanting to know that LiveCode was a valid choice as a platform, wanted to know how many people (especially professional programmers)