Exactly. -----Original Message----- From: "Richard Gaskin" <[email protected]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: 12/22/2008 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [OT] If programming languages were religions...
I'm not sure if it helps or hinders the conversation to note that, to the best of my knowledge, the term "xTalk" was coined by none other than Scott Raney, inventor of MetaCard. At the time, HyperTalkers preferred the term "HyperTalk", and SuperTalkers preferred "SuperTalk", but Dr. Raney showed the generosity to bring into common usage a term which encompasses them all. In the mid-90s he created the xTalk mailing list, a discusssion forum whose aim was to provide a venue for the various xTalk vendors to standardize syntax additions. This is not unlike the talks that had once been proposed by Charlie Jackson (Silicon Beach Software, publisher of SuperCard at the time) and Jean Louis Gassee (Apple VP of technology at the time) to standardize what were then called "HyperTalk dialects". With both the xTalk list and the earlier Silicon Beach talks, when it actually came time to start work Apple refused to participate. In fact, with the xTalk list pretty much every vendor refused to participate except Doug Simons of Thoughtful Software, inventor of SenseTalk, and Dr. Raney himself. All were sent invitations; only one showed up at the party. I think it speaks well of the audience for these tools that the word "xTalk" has caught on: it seems the users of these tools have a broader vision for what the future can be than their old vendors did; the users are still with us even when the vendor is not. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
