Referencing Livecode

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 04:57:15 EDT 2022


>From what I know (my wife is a senior academic at a university) references
to Wikipedia pages are academic suicide, fail, go straight to jail, do not
pass GO, do not collect 200 smackers, and you get the picture.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, 11:47 David V Glasgow via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> > On 16 Jun 2022, at 9:08 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a reason not to use the LC site URL, either alone or in
> addition to the Wikipedia one?
>
> The https://livecode.com landing page is rather sparse, and focussed on
> drawing customers in rather than conveying anything about text processing,
> or obvious links to information on text processing.  No criticism of that
> at all.  It’s a commercial site.
>
> Wiki page has the disadvantage of a banner warning about link rot, but the
> advantage of lots of information presented in a more academic and neutral
> style.
>
>
> >
> > Re: the errors, they look like examples of functions that would return
> "false" but I haven't seen them in context.
> > --
>
> They do, don’t they.  From memory, that wasn’t the context though.
>
> Cheers
>
> David G
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