Bill Marriot wrote: "Actually, it would be great if a LOT of people suggested Rev, and in some depth, according to their passion! (Richmond, this seems RIGHT up your alley!)"
and, of course, the raving ego-maniac rises to the bait. "The thread is filled with a lot of people who are suggesting Ruby, Python, even C++! Strikes me as verging on child abuse to subject a 14-yo to that, but who am I to say? :)" Ooh, Yes, let's talk about "child abuse' (being myself a victim of it; many children abuse ME every day): My 16 year-old has just suffered 'deep, lasting trauma' at the hands of PASCAL 5.5. [actually, the real trauma was caused by having his Dad sitting beside him telling him awful "when I was at Durham" stories, but I digress ] But for a very simple reason: countries like Bulgaria (cannot decide whether it qualifies as third-world or simply 'turd' world) are not prepared to spend money on anything vaguely smacking of education. And any old fool can download FREEdos and bung it on an old piece of junk along with the GEM GUI - I know, I did it myself in about 15 minutes: comes with PASCAL inside. Now, BACK TO THE FUTURE; I have urged, several times, in varying degrees of linguistic 'heat', RR to re-release Runtime Revolution 2 FREE version. I would be straight up the road at the Ministry of Misinformation (whoops, Education) pushing RR like nobody's business. Now, while the Bulgarian government may be a bunch of cheap-jacks, and the Bulgarians may pride themselves on being kings of software piracy (Yup!); I believe that re-releasing RR 2 would actually pay off; not just in Bulg. but world-wide. Of course RR 2.0.1 could be revamped with a tedious start-up screen that delayed you for 3-4 minutes while it sung the praises of RR 3. After all, one can download a ten-lines-of-code-limited version of Metacard for WIN / MAC / LIN right now (I know, just bunged it on my new toy; a P4 1.7 GHz running Ubuntu 8.04.1). However, as we all know, the GUI of Metacard is not very kiddy-friendly. I would be more than happy to pitch in my alternative revTools stack I made for 2.0! Were I part of RR I would be urging a huge "education push", call it "outreach", call it what you like. Judy Perry wrote: "Someone might want to suggest Rev..." To which the inevitable reply is; "Why don't you?" The more people who vote for RR the better. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
