Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/2/04 2:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that include SGI Irix? I still don't see any "current" Rev software > available for all of the supposedly supported flavors of Unix. If you are > dropping those platforms, please just say so. > > Roger Eller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 9/2/04 09:23 AM, Kevin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Without in any way losing our great Mac > support, we're working hard on our presence on other platforms. Kevin, Does that include SGI Irix? I still don't see any "current" Rev software available for all of the supposedly supported f

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Miller
On 9/2/04 2:22 am, Ken Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I thought Kevin dealt well with that one the other day. If >> anyone has a >> perception that Rev is a Mac tool, there's not much that can >> be done to >> help them. The MacWorld (UK?) reviewer who said that obviously had >> spent little

RE: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread xbury . cs
I know that a lot of colleagues would rather not use a "Mac" tool... Not that they like Microsoft tool better but what PC, SUN, Unix, Linux marketing have they seen? They surely dont look at mac stuff... While the Mac market is important, Im sure they're missing about 90% of the programmer's mar

RE: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Chipp Walters
I'm in agreement with Ken on this one. As mainly a PC user, it is obvious to me that RR is marketing mainly at Mac users. This is because ex-HyperCard users are the 'low hanging fruit' for RR - and a company like RR with limited resources wants to make the easy sales first. While Tom's GOOGLING ef

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Yes, Mark I was delighted by the Japanese sites. I went to a few of them but was very lost. I did find a pdf on using REV in an othello type game that I am finding very interesting. So although I knew about what you mention below concerning Google I still enjoyed do it and checking out a lot o

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
AND FWIW, Find all of the words "Runtime Revolution" and Without the words "Windows, Macintosh" and found 20,600 matches. Find all of the words "Runtime Revolution" found 27,100 matches. So, I figure 1,800 sites mention Macintosh and 6,400 mention Windows! I don't know but that sounds kin

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ken, I just did a search on advanced Google as follows: Find all of the words "Runtime Revolution" and Without the words "Macintosh" and found 25,300 matches. That's 25,300 matches that don't mention Macintosh!!! I did the same search without windows as follows: Find all of the words "Runtime Re

RE: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Ken Ray
> I thought Kevin dealt well with that one the other day. If > anyone has a > perception that Rev is a Mac tool, there's not much that can > be done to > help them. The MacWorld (UK?) reviewer who said that obviously had > spent little or no time writing the review. Nothing at RunRev's Web >

Re: xTalk Syntax (was Re: Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 05:36 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: FWIW, I'm always, always, always going to argue against any change to xTalk syntax that makes the language one iota more complex than it is. ... And those folks, as I said in my earlier post, are vanishingly unlikely to change languages