Kurt Kaufman wrote: "Scott Raney was EXTREMELY helpful to me while I was working with MIDI"
I bet he was; after all why spend ages building something when you can get somebody else to do it for you, for free? This is another big bone of contention: While leveraging existing capabilities of Runtime Revolution is reasonable behaviour to expect from RR customers, I really wonder if it is reasonable to expect them to write whole new appendages for RR; especially those that provide ways of doing things that by rights RR should already be capable of doing? Runtime Revolution is described as the heir to Hypercard; and it is in the sense that I am heir to my father, but also in the sense that while my father is a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society I always have a problem remembering where to put the hydroxy groups on the carbon rings in sugars: that is to say, my capabilities and skills are not the same as my father's (and, unlike RR's, they are not generally better). Runtime Revolution offers both more and (in the specific case under discussion) less than Hypercard - something it doesn't rush to point out in its publicity or its documentation. Now, on balance, RR wipes the floor with HC - however, surely it can only claim that HyperTalk is a subset of RR's programming language when that contains all the capabilities of HyperTalk within it? 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
