Supercard 4.8 public beta

[Graham Samuel]

Sorry, I got that from an old thread and forgot to change it. By the way I didn’t say in my story that Knuth used Algol and Cobol for his algorithm, and I translated the Algol one (looks a bit like LiveCode, even today…)

> On 3 Feb 2017, at 17:20, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Why is this post called Supercard 4.8 Public Beta??
> 
> Bob S
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> 
>> On Feb 3, 2017, at 08:15 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> Only slightly OT, quite near my first encounter with computers at all, and at the very beginning of my encounter with High Level Languages (do people still use that expression?), I translated Knuth’s algorithm for calculating the date of Easter into LISP 1. It would be a lot easier to do in LiveCode. As this is probably of limited interest, I have not spent the $2.99 needed to retrieve the original article, but maybe someone might want to:
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>> https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm <https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/acm/the-calculation-of-easter-bXkDNEaKDY?key=acm>
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>> I did not know either of the languages involved when I started the exercise.
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>> Anyway that experience makes me endorse one of Richmond’s way of introducing people to LiveCode, quoted below.
>> 
>> Graham
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>> PS As an exercise for the reader (do people still use **that** expression?) you can work out from this story approximately how old I am.
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>>> On 16 Oct 2016, at 13:30, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Another thing that is quite instructive is to download some daft game from the internet written in
>>> who-knows-what and get the kids, first, to consider its functionality, and secondly, how they might
>>> possibly achieve that functionality in Livecode.
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