What is "Open Language"?

[Richard Gaskin]

Richmond write:

 > The sticking point is this bit:
 >
 > "to enable everyone to write programs that use any aspect of a
 > computer or device."
 >
 > Well: I still cannot talk to my USB robot or my USB footpedal set
 > with LiveCode . . .

I agree it would have been clearer to have specified "or computing 
device".  But since "device" is commonly used to refer collectively to 
phones, phablets, and tablets, I've seen very few people so certain that 
it meant "all possible devices ever manufactured for any purpose however 
specialized" that they felt compelled to spam "RunRev doesn't care" all 
over the forums.

Given this expectation, and that the number of folks using Lua, Python, 
or JavaScript is far larger than our humble LiveCode audience, one might 
ask whether the core dev teams for those and other scripting language 
has provided you built-in commands for the specific device you have?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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