On 02/23/2013 09:58 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more
articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple
flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the
Apple fan-base?
As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started
as a Windows
equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform.
Interestingly enough I notice on the Wikipedia stub for Metacard it is
described as a "GUI Toolkit",
a very interesting term I have not encountered before; AND perhaps one
that RunRev should be
promoting rather than 'programming language' as it makes a lot more
sense - certainly it is one
I shall use henceforth whenever people ask me about Livecode.
This: http://www.scdi.org/languages/metacard/ is interesting in that
it uses the phrase
"development environment" which also makes a lot more sense than
'programming language'.
That does not seem to have been touched since 1997 and bears out what I
said above about
Metacard being, initially, non-Macintosh.
"MetaCard is available for several operating systems including Windows
95/NT, Windows 3.1, Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX, Irix, HP UNIX and AIX."
and if this were true then:
"/MetaCard was the language of the month in November 1997/."
Why cannot RunRev Livecode be the development environment of the year 2013?
Especially if the Open Source initiative works!
Actually . . . come to think of things . . . I wonder why RunRev don't
contact people such as Vikki Dawson:
http://designertoday.com/reviews/review.archive/413/metacard.aspx
who wrote so keenly about Metacard way-back-when, an micht dae again?
Richmond.
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