MacWorld UK

[Richmond]

Well the first thing you have to remember is that in Britain everything 
computerwise is behind
the times. Every year when I go over to visit my parents and so on I am 
amazed at how retro all
the computer magazines look.

This, of course, is without mentioning the UK government's obsessive 
need to regulate everything
to such an extent that it chokes a lot of initiative. What boggles my 
mind is how Yes-men like the BBC
go on about how fantastic the upcoming broadband internet service is 
when it is about 25% of the speed of the cheapest internet service here 
in Bulgaria (the one I use).

Please also remember that in Britain the level of ignorance of any 
operating system beyond Windows
is far worse than in most other countries . . .

Just to cover myself, I should point out that those statements refer to 
non-computer specialists.

At the "University" of Abertay, where I got my second Master's degree, 
my thesis supervisor asked
me if I could explain to her what an emulator was (I was learning Visual 
Basic at home on a Macintosh
running system 10.2 running Windows ME inside Virtual PC:a whole groovy 
game in its own right),
as she (supervising me on a programming thesis to produce a 
proof-of-concept prototype of a
cross-platform voice-activated RAD for teachers) did not know what one 
was. She also asked me how a Macintosh could work without Windows: she 
held a PhD is computer systems.

About half of the teenagers I teach English to here in Bulgaria have 
either a computer running
dual-boot Win/Lin (which they have set upo themselves), or several 
machines running a variety of systems: they are just "fooling around" by 
themselves; but they are well aware of both the variety
of OSes and programming environments. Now, as Bulgaria is, after all, a 
small somewhere at the
bottom of the European sack, this should give you a fair idea of what 
sort of things to expect
from kids in other European countries. Presumably one of the reasons for 
Brexit is so that Britain
can blame its on incredible mediocrity (computerwise, at least) on 
something other than the English
tendency to rubbish success and praise second-rate stuff; while the E.U. 
is already outstripping them
by leaps and bounds.

Richmond.

On 5.10.2016 04:05, Paul Hibbert wrote:
> How can a major UK Mac magazine ignore LiveCode in an article titled "Complete guide to coding and programming on a Mac: Best programming languages for Mac coders | How to get started as an app developer”.
>
> Link: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/complete-guide-coding-programming-apps-mac-3645777/
>
> I’ve left a comment on their page, may help with a few more comments.
>
> Paul
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