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If there are two terms that define what is driving computing today they're mobility and portability. We want to be able to run whatever we want anywhere and on anything. For example, here in Gearhead last week (tinyurl.com/ajgtchk) I looked at a new product that allows you to run Android apps on Windows and OS X and, the vendor claims, eventually Windows on Android!

I must digress for a moment and point out that even app development tools have become capable of generating code that redefines what it means to be portable. LiveCode, a programming system I much admire that's published by RunRev (I covered this company several years ago when the language was called Runtime Revolution), not only enables rapid application development in more-or-less plain English, it also allows you to build for iOS, Android, OS X, Windows and Linux ... all from the same development system.

RunRev recently started a Kickstarter campaign (tinyurl.com/b26zgpt) to turn LiveCode loose as open source and make the system free to educational users....

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