[OT] The problem with programming and how to fix it

Mark Waddingham mark at livecode.com
Mon Aug 6 15:39:59 EDT 2018


I think it might be quite unique amongst x-talks in another way too...

How much of any of the others were written in themselves?

Mark.

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> On 6 Aug 2018, at 13:26, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> It isn't.  SuperCard is available exclusively for macOS.  There was an effort in the mid-90s to port to Windows, but funding dried up before it was completed so no useful version ever saw the light of day.
> 
> Toolbook is also single-platform, Windows-only.
> 
> But most of the others were cross-platform to varying degrees:  OMO and Plus were Mac and Windows, Gain Momentum was Unix and Windows, SenseTalk ran on Mac, Windows, and Unix.
> 
> LC is unique in its expansion to mobile, though.  And today, even looking beyond xTalks, I don't see any other scripting tool with integrated GUI elements available for as many platforms.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> 
> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> How "multi" is SuperCard?
>>> On 6/8/2018 6:47 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Except for Supercard.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 5, 2018, at 13:40 , Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> LiveCode is multiplatform and this single fact
>>>> set it apart from all previous x-talk languages.
> 
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