Programming SubReddit

Robert Sneidar slylabs13 at me.com
Sat Feb 9 23:14:58 EST 2013


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On Feb 9, 2013, at 7:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 2/9/13 6:52 PM, Jim Little wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Perhaps other, more experience LiveCoders, might weigh in on the subreddit.
>> 
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1873yt/best_programming_language_livecode_to_go_open/
> 
> I object to his list, which assumes RR has "invented" a new language, and to most of his critique which doesn't appear to understand it. You could point out that the language was actually invented by Apple Computer, and at its peak had millions of users, dozens of printed books, its own forums on several online services, and produced thousands of utilities and programs over the years. Some were better than others, but that was because the language was so easy that children wrote with it, but also so sophisticated that programmers produced award-winning products. When Apple discontinued support, the language lived on in via a third-party port to Linux, and was eventually taken up by RunRev, expanded tremendously, and is now extremely powerful under a deceptively simple syntax.
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