There was a short thread just a little while ago where it was mentioned that the name of the language itself was important. That is, in order to be taken seriously, to compete with C++ or Fortran, in other words to break away from the hobby-like persona of Hypertalk, the name of the language had to convey power.
Had to, since it did not appear arcane in structure and syntax, at least be named like it was raw machine code. Forget substance. HT was saddled with "scripting" instead of "programming" (note my use of quoted literals) to make it seem less daunting. On purpose, imagine. This greatly contributed to its relegation to being kids stuff. "Hypertalk" already sounded like a skateboard. It was the "Hyper", I guess. Forget substance. (note the verbosity). Mention fun or elegance at your peril; it will not be taken seriously. Human beings (in my opinion the worst sort of people) probably need the language to have a power name. Sort of like a power suit. I spent an evening playing Rev with a "real" programmer who never heard of it. He loved it, asking me about inheritance and polymorphism. We wrote gadgets ALL night, playing especially with expression evaluation, which blew him away. He learned fast. Really fast. One convert. I vote for Transcript. It already exists and is no more homey than Java. It is a strong, no-nonsense name. Craig Newman In a message dated 8/13/09 5:53:11 AM, [email protected] writes: > I don't know, Sims. I think it was changed into Revolution, but I have > also heard revTalk. Most of the time I speak of Transcript, though. > _______________________________________________ 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
