What is "Open Language"?

[Richmond]

On 24/10/15 22:21, Peter TB Brett 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 :-)
>

Ha, Ha: I take that is meant to be a joke: if non-American programmers 
cannot put up with the odd spot of American spelling
one wonders how they'll manage anything else: that should be the very 
least of anyone's worries.

R.