On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > > I will be forever grateful to the Livecode team that they have saved me > from having to learn C++. > I've lost track of how many languages I've learned and used over the last decades. I've even written major sections in languages that I didn't bother to learn, and edited code in languages I've never learned. They all come back easily--except C and especially C++. I have to relearn these every time (OK, C scope and variable return sticks around. Boy do I want {} scoping in LiveCode, but I digress). Even having written a mail merge feature for LyX that danced circles around what MS Word could do at the time (or, I believe, that it can do now) in C (or was it C++), it rushed back out of my brain as quickly as it could . . . As long as I remember that there is no such construct as "send someMessage to every control on this card", I can come back to hypertalk at full speed after years of not using it . . . (then again, I"m one of those people that remembers the Calculus "chain rule" several years later when I needed it [and got it right!]) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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