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Lingo is a verbose object-oriented scripting language developed by John H. Thompson for use in Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director). Lingo is used to develop desktop applications, interactive kiosks, CD-ROMs and Adobe Shockwave content.〔(Macromedia Shockwave for Director User's Guide, Volume 1 ), New Riders Pub., 01-Jan-1996〕〔(Macromedia Shockwave for Director, Volume 1 ), Hayden Books, 1996〕 Lingo is the primary programming language on the Adobe Shockwave platform, which dominated the interactive multimedia product space during the 1990s. Various graphic adventure games were developed with Lingo during the 1990s, including The Journeyman Project, Total Distortion, Mia's Language Adventure, Mia's Science Adventure, and the Didi & Ditto series. Hundreds of free online video games were developed using Lingo, and published on websites such as Miniclip and Shockwave.com. Lingo can be used to build user interfaces, to manipulate raster graphics, vector graphics and 3D graphics, and other data processing tasks.〔(Macromedia Director 8: Creating Powerful Multimedia ), Prentice Hall, 2001〕〔(Inside Macromedia Director 6 with Lingo ), New Riders Pub., 01-Jan-1997〕 Lingo supports specialized syntax for image processing and 3D object manipulation.〔(Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio for 3D: Training from the Source ), Macromedia Press, 2002〕 3D meshes can also be created on the fly using Lingo.〔 ==History== Lingo was invented by John H. Thompson at MacroMind in 1989, and first released with Director 2.2. Jeff Tanner developed and tested Lingo for Director 2.2 and 3.0, created custom XObjects for various media device producers, language extension examples using XFactory including the XFactory API, and wrote the initial tutorials on how to use Lingo. Dave Shields tested and documented Object-based Lingo for Director 3.13 and 4.0. He ran build scripts to create weekly releases for testing, originated the Macromedia KnowledgeBase, created examples of how to write Lingo XTRA plug-ins in C++, and assembled the "Golden Master" disks of Macromedia Director that were shipped to the duplicator. Lingo was quickly adopted by burgeoning multimedia community during the 1990s and the already popular MicroMind Director product. Initially, about 90% of the users only used 10% of Lingo's features; primarily go to the frame by multimedia authors of tutorials and presentations. However, 10% of the users were game developers who took a wider interest in the other 90% of the functionality, including their own functional extensions by creating their own XFactories/XObjects. The Journeyman Project is a prominent example of this.抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lingo (programming language)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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