Advantages of LC as high level language--examples

Bernard Devlin bdrunrev at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 08:07:56 EST 2012


Sorry to resurrect a threat that lived so long ago, but I thought this
study might be of use to Devin (although it is not specifically
focusing on Livecode, it does contrast the productivity of  scripting
languages with compiled languages).

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf

Since the report is from an academic enviornment, it might be quite
appropriate for Devin's students.

Bernard

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In trying to explain to students how high level languages such as LiveCode can make development faster, I would like to give concrete examples of how single-line LC commands actually execute dozens of C++ commands in the engine. For example, a simple one-liner like:
>
>        show field "demo" with visual effect dissolve
>
> Must have lots of lines of compiled C code behind it. Does anyone have any concrete examples? I may end up directing this to the mother ship, but thought I'd try here first.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devin




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