On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Mark Wilcox <[email protected]>wrote:
> developers using it had much lower expectations There's a huge blub<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Blub>issue here. Of course most people think their language is pretty good. Most don't know any better, and those who do likely moved on. The only people who are (somewhat) suited to judge a language are those who can judge it relative to another language, and then only the relative difference between the two languages. I can say, for example, that LC's IDE kicks ass compared to PHP, but only for the PHP IDEs I've seen. I can say that LC's math libraries *really* need bignum and arbitrary precision integer math compared to J. I can say that J's ability to handle arbitrary arrays kicks ass over LC, RB, PHP, Ruby, Python... everything I've ever used. Same thing with their power functions, and inverse functions (*that* will bake your noodle). I can say that FileMaker's label abstraction destroys every other tool I've used. LISP macros (in my limited understanding) kick major ass, and I am *soooo* looking forward to having something similar with open language. But it's much harder to say how LC rates on a scale of 1-10. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
