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[Monte Goulding]

On 10/02/2013, at 2:16 PM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com> wrote:

> He may be right about the dir tree search, or maybe we're just forgetting
> that LC can shell out to bash or other languages (when necessary), then do
> what it does "best", and manipulate the data efficiency, while presenting
> it to the user in a friendly UI on multiple platforms.

I don't think presenting an answer that relies on shell will help prove LiveCode's power. Actually, it would be easy to trim the fat from the example code and get something close (but still more verbose) to his second version. Perhaps more readable. Still... his first version meant not having to explain recursive programming to the high school kids which nice. But like I said before... completing his whole project without having to use wxPython is definitely going to be easier for the high school kids to understand.

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