Because LC can't do two things at once.

Fri Feb 20 16:52:23 EST 2015

I've been using many of the parallel features in .NET recently. I've been
pretty impressed with how easy it is to get the hang of.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460713%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

Node.js at its core uses an event loop to provide async (not quite real
parallel processing, however). Doing complex things with it was quite a
callback-nightmare until recently as things have started to mature some as
a result.

http://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-event-loop/

Not saying, to switch to those things but I could see the nodejs event loop
providing some inspiration to augment the concurrency features already
present in livecode.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> Well, for anyone who's ever made an application
> multitasking/multithreading, they'll tell you that there is all sorts of
> extra complication involved in making it work, and if you've ever written
> anything for a multithreading environment, it is definitely a lot of extra
> work (it's worth it, IMHO, but it is not easy and straightforward).
>
> You actually can make LC multithreaded-ish, and there have been discussions
> about doing that, especially in server setups.
>
> If you were prioritizing features for LC, would this be one of your top 5?
> It might make my top 10, but I don't know if it would be in my top 5.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That's a quote from another posting . . .
> >
> > this might be the rock on which Livecode founders.
> >
> > Other languages can do two, or more, things at once . . . I am either too
> > out of touch
> > with other computer languages, or I don't know enough about how computer
> > languages
> > talk to computers (which, de facto, is pretty much the same thing), but I
> > wonder WHY
> > Livecode cannot do two things at once . . .
> >
> > AND, could it be revamped so that it could do two things at once?
> >
> > Java can manage multi-threaded programming . . .
> >
> > I assume [????] that more and more computer languages are in the process
> > of becoming
> > capable of multi-threading . . .
> >
> > A while back, just for fun, I ran up a silly little game where the
> > end-user had to steer a rocket past some static
> > planets to get to Earth. The reason the planets were static is just
> > because I could think of no way of them precessing
> > in their orbits while the end-user was pressing arrow keys.
> >
> > Before I look a complete, steaming nit, I am sure there is a "work
> > around"; but, to be quite honest, I wonder how many "work arounds"
> > are necessary before the bell rings.
> >
> > In the great scheme of things my silly little game is neither here nor
> > there: what it did do for me was NOT demonstrate
> > the super capabilities of Livecode [ after 14 years of messing around
> with
> > Livecode I am pretty well aware of those ],
> > BUT demonstrate some of its limitations . . .
> >
> > Now, I know that the initial idea of Livecode was this:
> >
> > Kevin designing a front-end for a UNIX clone of Hypercard that he felt
> was
> > more user-friendly than the Metacard one.
> >
> > However, like the Rary, it grew out of control . . .
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Side line; extreme tangentialism coming up: skip down to next load of
> > dotted lines if you have a problem drifting
> > off-off-off-topic with Richmond.
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > There was a Scotsman down to University in England, who was walking down
> > the road and saw a matchbox lying in the road.
> >
> > Picking up the matchbox and opening it he found, inside, a small note
> > written on a piece of paper and a small, black, spherical
> > object that pulsated.
> >
> > The paper said; "This matchbox contains a Rary; feed it and care for it
> > and it will bring you good fortune."
> >
> > The Scotsman took the matchbox back to his student room and started to
> > feed the Rary; after his 3 years (short degree courses in England)
> > the Rary was about the size of a tennis ball; black and hairy with no
> > obvious eyes, mouth or other orifices.
> >
> > The man went away back to his butt-and-ben in the hills to look after his
> > ageing parents, and continued to feed the Rary; by the time his
> > parents were gathered the thing was about the size of a large medicine
> > ball.
> >
> > Over the years our man continued to care for the Rary until it became the
> > size of a small tractor and the man was beggared with
> > the feeding bills.
> >
> > He decide to get rid of the Rary; so he got the thing into a boat and
> > rowed it all the way south down the West Coast and past France and Spain;
> > left into the Mediterranean, through the Suez canal, all the way across
> > the Indian ocean until he came to Japan.
> >
> > Arriving at Japan he rolled the Rary, at great personal expense to
> himself
> > and his health, up to the top of a very high cliff.
> >
> > He was just about to push the Rary over the cliff when it turned to him
> > and said:
> >
> > "It's a long way to tip a Rary."
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > Should this story really annoy you; I take no credit whatsoever for it;
> my
> > father, Donald Mathewson, told it to me when I was about 7,
> > and, at the risk of sounding incredibly juvenile, I haven't stopped
> > laughing since.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > NOW, Livecode is no longer a UNIX clone of Hypercard with Kevin's GUI
> > strapped on the front.
> >
> > Nor is it anything like what it was 10 years ago.
> >
> > So, it has to keep growing AND evolving to compete [ THAT is the magic
> > word ] . . .
> >
> > ---------------------
> > After all; if it ONLY grows, then it is going to get pushed
> > off the cliff soon enough.
> > ---------------------
> >
> > Possibly the next reasonable step is multi-threading ?????????
> >
> > Let the debate RAGE :)
> >
> > Richmond.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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