The future of LiveCode

[Bob Sneidar]

I had been working with Foxpro for several years, and was astonished whenever I found a new command I didn't know about. But when I looked it up in the reference manual (that is all we had back then, no internet to make life simple for us) there it was plain as day. 

If we wanted to do something but didn't know the command name for it, we would have to read through a list of all the commands and functions to see if there was one that *might* do the trick. The trouble was, commands and functions were not very well named. For instance, there was a RAT() function that returned the character position of a character in a string - in the reverse order, end to beginning. The inverse was AT(). 

Makes perfect sense eh? I don't have a lot of pity for these young whippersnappers complaining about how hard it is to find things these days, daggumit! 

Bob


On Jul 20, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

> Professor Goldberg,
> 
> A bit daunting because of its size, but I learned HyperTalk from the truly wonderful book:  "HyperTalk The Book." By Winkler and Kamins, and later, our own, Jean DeVoto, who did the original RunRev dictionary.
> 
> I am a strong believer in learning from examples--after the basic theory.
> 
> Jim Hurley
> Emeritus Professor of Physics, Univ. of California