What is "Open Language"?

[Geoff Canyon]

The Wayback Machine never forgets:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130301041400/http://blog.runrev.com/blog/bid/265511/Open-Language
(takes
some time to load)

This is the main thing I have been looking forward to for the past several
years. The goal was to allow the addition of truly new syntax and
functionality to the language. I really wanted this, and widgets is what it
has turned into. Not that widgets aren't a good thing, but I'd really like
to be able to use:

repeat for each line L in someText with index i

apply myFunction to X until the value converges

apply (+1) to every item of myList where it mod 2 = 1

...and many, many more.


On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-10-24 19:40, John Dixon wrote:
>
>> Oh dear... it smacks of pidgeon english... with words like 'innit',
>> 'blood' and 'bling' being included... to maintain a standard, perhaps
>> there should be an 'Oxford English publication of acceptable words to
>> be used in liveCode syntax'...
>>
>
> Yes, many of the core dev team are looking forward to replacing:
>
> * color -> colour
> * hilite -> highlight
> * gray -> grey
> * program -> programme
>
> Spelling these keywords properly will be an important step forward in
> ensuring accessibility and comprehensibility for the LiveCode scripting
> language. It will greatly reduce the number of bugs and regressions in our
> releases, thanks to reducing the core team developers' typo rate.
>
>                                  Peter :-)
>
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> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
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