Ben Beaumont jumps ship

[Richmond Mathewson]

The most important thing is your message is "I remember teaching myself" 
. . .

LiveCode should be banging on about this endlessly; I am trying to teach 
myself C#
and getting thoroughly bogged down.

I am also gently teaching myself HyperNext, and because that is 
Object-based like Hypercard
and LiveCode it is pretty painless. HyperNext is an effort put together 
by one person, and as such
is both amazing as a one-person job and considerably inferior to 
LiveCode for the same reason.

Admittedly I did teach myself PASCAL in 1984 (mainly because I really 
couldn't even begin to
understand what the lecturers in the Maths department were talking 
about): but, having got through that
when I "found" Hypercard (1993) the whole thing was far less painful.

LiveCode is quite modular (if one thinks of controls as modules) and as 
such one can
build up from simples to very complicated stuff (c.f. LEGO) relatively 
easily and quickly.

Richmond.

On 6/13/17 6:31 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
> Ditto I remember teaching myself HyperCard scripting by writing a speaking clock. Wonder what happened to that bit of code?
>
> Good that were still here though.
>
> Graham
>
>> On 13 Jun 2017, at 08:03, Jeff Reynolds via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sigh, me too I guess. I now see how long it has been (40 years) thinking back...
>>
>> HyperCard
>> Supercard
>> Plus
>> Oracle Media Objects
>> Toolbook
>> MetaCard
>> Revolution
>> Livecode
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>> Me too.
>>>
>>> Bob S
>>>
>>>
>>>>> On Jun 9, 2017, at 11:43 , Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If we're counting HC, I've been "there" longer than Kevin. :) And so have
>>>>> several others on this list.
>>>> If that counts, I'm day 1 . . .
>>
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