English Like?

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Wed May 24 10:16:49 EDT 2017


The problem with this idea is the need to register the device through
apple's developer portal, but I wonder if testFlight could be leveraged to
make that work.  TestFlight apps are time-limited, so that takes care of
that problem...

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> That is certainly true.  The approachability of the language is the hook
> that got me hooked, even though HC was my...8th?  9th?  15th? language.
> For beginners, we should be asking what else we can do to make their life
> easier.  Community is free and it gets you in, but you can't build even the
> simplest ios app without paying apple and then fighting through all of the
> other things you have to do to get the app built and on your device just so
> you can play with it.  That would be a nifty service to provide for
> learning.  The n00b would have to upload their stack, and the ID of the one
> device they want to mess with it on.  Hmm......
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:45 AM, dunbarx via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a far more important issue here. New learners are far more
>> likely to
>> be coaxed into continuing to spend the time and effort, and to put away
>> their fears, if they see and use "put x into y". It is why we have stacks
>> and cards, and in the olden days, rolodexes. The original HC team did all
>> that on purpose.
>>
>> Remember "for the rest of us"?
>>
>> Experienced users are being academic and pedantic to raise this issue as
>> if
>> it were something important. We need new users, not old ones.
>>
>> No offense, please.
>>
>> Craig Newman
>>
>>
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."



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