I used to do "prototypes" with HC and then code the apps in VisualBasic and FutureBasic (very compatible); however, had I "done the prototypes" in LC, which was not available at the time, I would have continued, as Richmond suggests, tweaking and improving the Code until I had the Windows and Mac apps. This was back in 1990. We've come a long way since then. (sigh!)
Joe Wilkins On Jan 19, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Richmond wrote: > I had a look at the Jolt thing. > > As it says, Livecode is good for prototyping insofar as one can get something > working > very very quickly indeed in Livecode. > > What I fail to understand, is, having bothered to take the trouble to build a > "prototype" > in Livecode (especially one that does all that you want it to), what possible > advantage > can there be to then move to some other language/RAD/whatever to build "the > real thing" > when you already have it in Livecode? > > Surely all that 'prototyping' really is, is another way of saying 'alpha > version', > > and, surely what one does with an alpha version, is one refines it, tweaks > it, polishes it, > and generally poshes it up until one has, through various beta cycles of > development, > a finished product? > > ------------------------slightly tendentious simile > follows-------------------------- > > If I carve a motor car out of soap it is, in some way a 'prototype' (i.e. it > superficially resembles > the exterior of what I intend my car to look like), although it stands no > chance of being refined > to anything more than shampoo. > > Running up a 'prototype' in Livecode is most definitely NOT at all like > carving a model of > a projected car out of soap. A prototype in Livecode is far more like a set > of wheels, a chassis > and an engine; from which one can go on to develop the whole car. > > --------------------------------------end of that > one------------------------------------- > > Presumably the only people who are going to get offended by the word > 'prototype' are > the ones stuck in the cars of soap mentality, which I very much doubt most > computer > developers are. > > Richmond. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
