Curry Kenworthy wrote:
> Richard:
>> What LiveCode brings to the modern world is a high-level
>> scripting language distinguished not by any conformance to
>> the rules of English, but by being among the very few that
>> include support for GUI controls as inherent language elements.
>
> Just a brief reply here to note that there's more to the story.
> LiveCode's implementation of English-like scripting has some
> extremely special features, it is indeed a valuable syntax for those
> seeking an intuitive language or English-like language, and that fact
> hasn't changed, despite the world having more options today. There
> are very sound reasons why this particular language (or language
> family) could be valuable to a new generation of coders.
I wholeheartedly agree. You may have noticed I use LiveCode. :)
In fact, I agree that the potential for LiveCode to achieve its rightful
place among the world's great language is so strong that I'm putting
together a little plan to move that vision forward for a new generation
of programmers.
More on that very soon....
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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