Replace LiveCode Script with JavaScript, forever

[mwieder]

LOL. To more-or-less quote Woody Allen's gag:
person 1: "This restaurant's food is terrible"
person 2: "Yeah, and the portions are so small"

[capellan]

If I understand correctly, the OP just wants to use JavaScript libraries along with LCS.
How could this be possible? Maybe, Compiling a JavaScript Engine as a LC external?

Al

[Klaus]

Replace LiveCode Script with JavaScript, forever

Well the headline cannot be misinterpreted, I think!

[richmond62]

As far as I understand things . . .

The OP wants the IDE, the objects and the functionality of LiveCode but with
JavaScript in the scriptEditor . . . .

But . . . I thought LiveCode could already work with other languages . . .

[Klaus]

The OP wants the IDE, the objects and the functionality of LiveCode but with
JavaScript in the scriptEditor . . .

Yep, exactly what the headline says!

[mwieder]

Given that it's the OP's first and only post I suggest we ignore the troll.

[Klaus]

All in all, I found it quite amusing.

[mwieder]

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[capellan]

Remember that today you could use perl and Lua
with Livecode:
https://sunny-tdz.com/livecode/sunnyperl
And Adobe Director already had Lingo and Javascript syntax:
http://director-online.dasdeck.com/buil ... hp?id=1130

Al

[sritcp]

"The english language, use it to write code." The motive at the core of LC.

As a hobbyist, this is the way I program in LC.

I (literally) speak out aloud what I want the 'computer' to do.
Then I realize, to my pleasant surprise, that it needs only minor changes to turn it into working LC code!
When it doesn't work, more often than not I realize that I had not enunciated my instruction with adequate specificity.
We all know that programming improves one's logical thinking skills, but when linked to an English-like language, this process can improve one's verbal logic. And most of us think in words, most of the time.
I can see why LC can be particularly useful in primary schools, to develop rigor in thinking (quite apart from programming skills).

...it's readable enough to be almost self-documenting....

I have found this to be very true. Going back to some old half-done project, I am able to get up to speed in record time.

Just a different point of view from a different consumer segment.

Regards,
Sri

[mwieder]

We all know that programming improves one's logical thinking skills, but when linked to an English-like language, this process can improve one's verbal logic.

Haw! If English were logical we wouldn't have to fiddle with irregular verbs.
And wouldn't have to decide whether "biweekly" meant every two weeks or twice a week.
And "is the turkey ready to eat?" would mean only one thing.

[richmond62]

Human languages are not logical for 2 very solid reasons:

1. Languages have evolved rather than been created.
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2. Humans are not particularly logical.

The fact that LiveCode may echo the way you think does not
prove that your way of thinking is logical; what it might prove
is that because LiveCode resembles English to a certain extent
it is not entirely logical.

Not that that is a bad thing.

Why, as humans are not very logical thinkers, computer languages have
to be logical is not clear to me.

[sritcp]

Some languages are more logical than others ....
(as Richmond might probably know ...! )

Sri

[sritcp]

And "is the turkey ready to eat?" would mean only one thing.

I thought they were asking if I was hungry. Is there another meaning?

[dunbarx]

I am struggling with this as well.

The only thing about turkeys that I know of is that turkeys can be done, but not finished. You can be finished, but not done.

Craig