Talk:Lingo (programming language)

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Why is it that the first thing this page informs us is that Lingo's inventor, John H Thompson, is an Afro-American? This sounds incredibly patronising. If John H Thompson wishes to discuss his background in his own personal wikipedia entry, that is his choice.

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I agree. I've taken it off. If anyone wishes to put it back on could you please explain why here.

I've updated the Lingo page with details of other obscure versions of Lingo.

The bulk of this should be moved to a new article "Macromedia Lingo" and a disambiguation page should be set up for the different languages. Some of the other languages e.g. (Lindo Systems) are not as "obscure" as the Macromedia fanboys would have us believe.

Why is referring to someone's Afro-American origin thought to be patronising? If John H. Thompson happened to be English, or Scottish, or Welsh, or Irish, there would be no objection to stating this!

--84.9.93.58 21:21, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lingo Allegro

Much of the following statement is not true. I took it out.

  • A version of APL was released, titled Lingo Allegro. The product still exists however Lingo Allegro recently transferred their domain name to www.lingo.com who provide VoIP solutions.

1. Lingo Allegro is a consulting company which, among other things, does APL-language contract programming and program maintenance for its clients.

2. Lingo Allegro never released its own version of the APL langauge. The link, which is very old, is correct, and also does not refer to a version fo the APL language.

3. As mentioned in the above link, Lingo Allegro did release, at one time, a connectivity component enabling Dyalog APL applications to access ODBC. This has been largely made redundant with the advent of Microsoft's ADO, deprecation of DDE, also with products offered with the Dyalog APL distribution.

4. Lingo Allegro did transfer their domain name.

As such, Lingo Allegro had absolutely nothing to do with the Lingo programming language.

The name "Lingo Allegro" was coined in 1991 and was supposed to suggest fast (Allegro) programming (Lingo) solutions.

--Cowznofski 3 Dec 2006

Should the references to Macromedia on this page and the other Director pages be changed to Adobe? The language was originated by Macromedia but the product is now owned by Adobe. (I note that Flash is credited to Adobe now)FSharpMajor 15:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)