Magic Super Glue

[Richard Gaskin]

Skip Kimpel wrote:

 > Today I was explaining to someone what I use LiveCode for, especially
 > at work.  He had the perfect response.... "So it is your magic super
 > glue!"
 >
 > Considering I use LC to consolidate data and create tools to
 > compensate for lack of functionality in other software systems,
 > I couldn't have put it better.

You're in good company - back in '98 when Stanford's John Ousterhout was 
still working at Sun, in his seminal paper "Scripting: Higher-
Level Programming for the 21st Century" he wrote:

    Scripting languages are sometimes referred to as
    glue languages or system integration languages.


A good paper worth reading for many reasons - everything he writes there 
about Tcl applies to LC even more so:
<http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pdf>

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