another article achieved...
Richmond
richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 15:15:22 EST 2013
On 02/23/2013 09:58 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
> Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more
> articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple
> flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the
> Apple fan-base?
As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started
as a Windows
equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform.
Interestingly enough I notice on the Wikipedia stub for Metacard it is
described as a "GUI Toolkit",
a very interesting term I have not encountered before; AND perhaps one
that RunRev should be
promoting rather than 'programming language' as it makes a lot more
sense - certainly it is one
I shall use henceforth whenever people ask me about Livecode.
This: http://www.scdi.org/languages/metacard/ is interesting in that
it uses the phrase
"development environment" which also makes a lot more sense than
'programming language'.
That does not seem to have been touched since 1997 and bears out what I
said above about
Metacard being, initially, non-Macintosh.
"MetaCard is available for several operating systems including Windows
95/NT, Windows 3.1, Linux, Solaris, Digital UNIX, Irix, HP UNIX and AIX."
and if this were true then:
"/MetaCard was the language of the month in November 1997/."
Why cannot RunRev Livecode be the development environment of the year 2013?
Especially if the Open Source initiative works!
Actually . . . come to think of things . . . I wonder why RunRev don't
contact people such as Vikki Dawson:
http://designertoday.com/reviews/review.archive/413/metacard.aspx
who wrote so keenly about Metacard way-back-when, an micht dae again?
Richmond.
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