Livecode Future

[doc hawk]

Heriberto honked,

> In the early 90s, I detected a bug when installing Microsoft Office alongside Corel Draw on Windows 95. I called Microsoft, and two weeks later, I received a diskette with a patch that resolved the issue.

Somewhere in my files I have a (typed!) letter from Microsoft from 1989 or 1990 responding to my suggestion as a software developer suggesting that BASIC be attached to MS Word.  The gist was that it was an intriguing idea, but they had no plans for such a thing.   At the time, I was using hypercard to pre-process information to a feeder file for word’s mail merge for part of my filing, and stepping through cards to print the rest


kevin kibitzed,

> Don't forget we have videos that explain both the rationale and the model. https://future.livecode.com <https://future.livecode.com/>

You say the as if expecting someone to view a video to get information wasn’t an act of Evil . . .

:)

As for myself, I certainly won’t be going to the new platform; it has nothing useful for me, and I abhor the notion of a computer or “AI” interfering with code (in fact, this should be very tightly regulated).

My project never ended up at a full commercial release.  It’s essentially done, but I would have had to self-implement two of the still-missing features (encrypted postgres session and exporting a pdf from the pdf widget [no, putting it back at 72dpi does not count!]).  I pretty much stopped cold when the pdf widget failed to be printable, making only the changes I needed for my own practice, and now I’m retired with absolutely no interest on starting a new business or having around to support software.

I could reimplement my engine in less than a week in just about anything that has decent string support (HyperTalk, BASIC, Fortran, Python, whatever).  Another day or two for a translator to export the internal functions on how data relates and is calculated.  And then whatever method for superimposing my own text on pdf, and converting to PDF/A.

The only interest I have in my supposedly lifetime “Indy” license, which I bought because livecode seemed to be in a crunch and needed it, is future toy project for myself.  And I just can’t see paying hundreds of dollars a year for something I probably won’t even use most years!

The only things I use that weren’t in HyperCard 2.0 or SuperCard 1.5 (in which I implemented this years ago) are groups, behaviors and chained behaviors, postures, and the in-memory SQLite.  

I have absolutely no use for any web connection, servers (other than postgres), or AI.