His first argument re: ambiguity doesn't hold water for me. Anyone who has tried to decipher another persons code can attest to how ambiguous programming languages can be. The second argument though, due to my recent exposure to LiveCode, I find true. LiveCode is verbose. As I've mentioned in another thread there should be a shorthand. I mentioned the use of 'with' to avoid the repetition of the context of a loop. There must be other places where this might be applied, and perhaps it's my inexperience talking that I'm not aware of them. Further leaving off words like 'the' in the script cause the line to not compile, with a not very clear error. This was a real eye opener for me, and not a very pleasant one. Please correct me if I'm wrong here btw.
Mike On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Dave Cragg <dave.cr...@lacscentre.co.uk>wrote: > > On 23 Feb 2012, at 22:01, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > I find his arguments ludicrous. Let me see some examples of english like > programming languages where a command could mean two different things > without any arguments supplied. What a preposterous thing to say! I can > only think he came right out of college into whatever teaching position he > now holds. BTW this is the kind of "my way is better than your way" of > thinking I alluded to in another post. For example, almost all the people I > have ever talked to in the past who *hate* Apple computers (their words not > mine) have never actually used one. This guy has obviously (as Al points > out) never actually USED an english like development language. > > > > Bob > > Being a bit harsh, aren't you, Bob? I don't think he was referring to > "English-like" but rather "natural English". I don't think it's the same > thing. Livecode can be described as "English-like", but probably not > "natural English". I could be wrong, in which case, as they say in these > parts, send the apologies of me to the target. > > end Dave > _______________________________________________ > 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
