On 30.07.2012, at 23:30, Craig Latta wrote:
>
> Hi Julian--
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode
>>
>> "Revolution" was renamed "LiveCode" in the fall of 2010. "LiveCode"
>> is developed and sold by Runtime Revolution Ltd., based in Edinburgh,
>> Scotland.
>
> Yeah, I think Alex pointed them out at the time. I found TOPLAP
> purely through a similar naming coincidence, so I've been following our
> Scottish friends' progress. They're mostly concerned with "mobile" "app"
> development, and it was also a couple of years ago that I fell in with
> another mobile dev community, Appsterdam. Oh, and the "LiveCode" product
> is descended rather directly from HyperCard, made by some of the folks
> who made Smalltalk, my favorite programming language.
>
> So at any moment something really cosmic is gonna happen...
>
Ha, yes, I found it when searching for a contemporary version of HyperCard. The whole art department where I used to study was entirely on HyperCard before it died. So yes, perhaps the cosmos has surprises in its sleeves.
Received on Tue Jul 31 2012 - 09:34:42 BST