Learning LiveCode

[Peter M. Brigham]

I'm not sure about a bridge to help folks move from C++ (eg) to LC, but my favorite reference to get folks to take LC seriously is this site:

http://tinyurl.com/cf35nrr

An article entitled "NASA uses Revolution at Mission Control for Landsat 7 Satellite"

When people hear that one of the NASA mapping satellite groups uses LC exclusively for all mission control processes, they sit up and take notice.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On Dec 28, 2012, at 5:34 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> I know I'm not alone in having great difficulties in getting experienced developers to withhold their judgement on LiveCode being anything more than hobby-ware.  
> 
> If RunRev want to bring developers across the great divide, there must be a bridge from where the masses reside to the brave new world?
> 
> Is there any kind of 'Rosetta Stone' that relates traditional and OO development concepts to those of LiveCode?
> 
> Are there any specific switcher's or evaluator's guides targeted at the main development communities, such as .Net, Java, C++, C#...
> Best,
> Keith..
> 
> On 28 Dec 2012, at 03:44, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/27/12 9:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>>> Nah, it's left to right.
>> 
>> Heretic.
>> 
>>> On Dec 27, 2012 7:15 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 12/27/12 8:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jacque-
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thursday, December 27, 2012, 3:25:35 PM, you wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jerry Daniels called this the difference between "earth worshippers" and
>>>>>> "sky worshippers". He was clever like that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've always thought of it as front-to-back myself, which I guess takes
>>>>> me out of the worshipper categories.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Excuse me, I'm off to make some graven images.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I'll go with you. I think of it as front-to-back too now. It's just easier
>>>> to explain.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
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