On Mar 18, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > On the heroism, I'm just telling you what the writers of the posts seem to > be saying, unless I'm reading them wrong. > > I don't disagree that LC is a nice tool to have. I do seem to spend enough > time using it - but - I've used lots of tools that were nice. Sometimes, > though, in business, mass leads to growth. I wasn't all that amped at > being able to develop android apps, except for the fact that someone else > who wants to develop for mobile can target ios and android with less work, > which means more potential users, more potential revenue for RR, and thus, > more potential goodies for me in the product. > > Today's hackers are frequently tomorrow's badasses, because eventually they > grow up and get a job. I'll cheer the hackers latching on as a very big > deal for tool growth. Now that LC is OSS, they might even eventually fork > it and do other very cool things with it that we can all thank them for, > later.
It strikes me that in a perverse way this marks the entrance of LC into the mainstream of programming languages. For it to be used as a malware tool, I mean. It is after all just a tool, and tools can be used for good or ill. If it's a truly powerful tool, someone will discover how to misuse it sooner or later. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
