Why is this post called Supercard 4.8 Public Beta?? Bob S
> On Feb 3, 2017, at 08:15 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Only slightly OT, quite near my first encounter with computers at all, and at > the very beginning of my encounter with High Level Languages (do people still > use that expression?), I translated Knuth’s algorithm for calculating the > date of Easter into LISP 1. It would be a lot easier to do in LiveCode. As > this is probably of limited interest, I have not spent the $2.99 needed to > retrieve the original article, but maybe someone might want to: > > https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm > <https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm> > > I did not know either of the languages involved when I started the exercise. > > Anyway that experience makes me endorse one of Richmond’s way of introducing > people to LiveCode, quoted below. > > Graham > > PS As an exercise for the reader (do people still use **that** expression?) > you can work out from this story approximately how old I am. > > >> On 16 Oct 2016, at 13:30, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Another thing that is quite instructive is to download some daft game from >> the internet written in >> who-knows-what and get the kids, first, to consider its functionality, and >> secondly, how they might >> possibly achieve that functionality in 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
