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LiveCode is a programming language created in 2001.

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LiveCode (formerly Revolution and MetaCard) is a cross-platform rapid application development runtime environment inspired by HyperCard. It features the Transcript (formerly MetaTalk) programming language which belongs to the family of xTalk scripting languages like HyperCard's HyperTalk. The environment was introduced in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from hello-world:
answer "Hello World!"
-- Hello world in LiveCode (formerly called Revolution, formerly called Transcript) answer "Hello World!"
Example from Wikipedia:
put url "binfile:picture.jpg" into url "ftp://john:passwd@ftp.example.net:2121/picture.jpg"

Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Print() Debugging answer
Line Comments -- A comment --
Comments
Semantic Indentation X

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