Prototyping

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

I used to do "prototypes" with HC and then code the apps in VisualBasic and FutureBasic (very compatible); however, had I "done the prototypes" in LC, which was not available at the time, I would have continued, as Richmond suggests, tweaking and improving the Code until I had the Windows and Mac apps. This was back in 1990. We've come a long way since then. (sigh!)

Joe Wilkins

On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Richmond wrote:

> I had a look at the Jolt thing.
> 
> As it says, Livecode is good for prototyping insofar as one can get something working
> very very quickly indeed in Livecode.
> 
> What I fail to understand, is, having bothered to take the trouble to build a "prototype"
> in Livecode (especially one that does all that you want it to), what possible advantage
> can there be to then move to some other language/RAD/whatever to build "the real thing"
> when you already have it in Livecode?
> 
> Surely all that 'prototyping' really is, is another way of saying 'alpha version',
> 
> and, surely what one does with an alpha version, is one refines it, tweaks it, polishes it,
> and generally poshes it up until one has, through various beta cycles of development,
> a finished product?
> 
> ------------------------slightly tendentious simile follows--------------------------
> 
> If I carve a motor car out of soap it is, in some way a 'prototype' (i.e. it superficially resembles
> the exterior of what I intend my car to look like), although it stands no chance of being refined
> to anything more than shampoo.
> 
> Running up a 'prototype' in Livecode is most definitely NOT at all like carving a model of
> a projected car out of soap. A prototype in Livecode is far more like a set of wheels, a chassis
> and an engine; from which one can go on to develop the whole car.
> 
> --------------------------------------end of that one-------------------------------------
> 
> Presumably the only people who are going to get offended by the word 'prototype' are
> the ones stuck in the cars of soap mentality, which I very much doubt most computer
> developers are.
> 
> Richmond.
>