BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Mon Nov 17 21:40:11 EST 2014


Maybe I'm confused, but isn't "Livescript" just the language for Livecode
scripts on a server?

Pete
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> Yes it is fortuitous that the Livescript language has similarities to
> LiveCode. Who knows, maybe you innocent blunder and polite retreat may
> cause a few Livescripters to find out what the heck LiveCode is... and be
> pleasantly surprised that it's something they really like.
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 17/11/2014 06:50, Kay C Lan wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Locally: I changed the file name to "LiveCode.plist"
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> We've been through so many changes of language name that I didn't even
> >>> notice the name!
> >>>
> >>> I don't wish to rain on your parade but I think you are hijacking a
> >>>
> >> completely different project.
> >>
> >> Livescript is not and has never been related to LiveCode, Revolution,
> >> MetaCard, RunRev or HyperCard.
> >>
> >> Livescript is related to JavaScript:
> >>
> >> http://livescript.net/
> >>
> >
> > Hi Kay,
> >
> > Thanks for pointing this out - Brahmanathaswami has been trying to tell
> me
> > the same thing, but I didn't understand until this morning.
> >
> > However, through the magic of scripting language similarity, it's all
> > good. The language is similar enough that simply installing it and
> applying
> > it to one of my script files worked well enough that I was motivated to
> fix
> > the most egregious non-working bits.  Whereas if I'd not found anything
> > when I googled, I'd have probably given up and gone without.
> >
> > I've shamefacedly retracted my pull request to the original maintainer.
> > Brahmanathaswami is correcting the language references.  Now it is/will
> be
> > a LiveCode CLM, whose Git history will correctly record it as being
> adapted
> > from a LiveScript CLM.  Hurrah for modern collaboration tools.
> >
> > Thanks for helping break through my shell of ignorance,
> >
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
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