What is "Open Language"?

[Richmond]

On 26/10/15 20:55, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 10/26/2015 1:30 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> Um: my endless thousands of numToChar statements in my Devawriter Pro
>> will have to
>> be rewritten should I decide to move my code-base from LC 4.5 to LC 7.*
>> or higher.
>
> Not necessarily, numToChar and charToNum still work. They are 
> discouraged now, but they still function. Did you try it?
>

No, I didn't, and should I decide to move my codebase I am sure I can 
automate
those changes relatively painlessly: I just mentioned them to
make the point about what a 'bother' lack of backwards compatibility can be.

Richmond.