Hi,
I'm one of those Saturday-afternoon hobbyists that have invested in
Rev. I've always been interested in programming but I've never coded
anything major. There were mainly four things that in the end made me
invest:
1) Rapid prototyping and development - I could write an simple utility
in an hour instead of a week and a competent application in a
relatively short while
2) Cross platform - I use a Mac but most people I knew (and work) used
Windows PC's so that came in very handy
3) Chunks - Compared to the other languages I've tried this is by far
the easiest with regard to string and file handling. Most of my
applications read some kind of data, process it and displays it
through a DataGrid or something similar.
4) Variables - I don't have to declare them and I can put almost
everything in there. Great stuff!
The english-like language wasn't a selling point for me and have
sometimes been a bit of a problem, probably because I'm swedish ;) I
often write "in" instead of "into" or "of" (or the other way around),
and I sometimes have problems finding the right commands in the
Dictionary. revTalk can also be a little long-winded: "a=1" is easier
to write than "put 1 into a", and referring to controls on a specific
card can be a bit bothersome. I'm also a bit uneasy about having
scripts in a million places in my application but a good Object
browser (Like in tRev for instance) helps a lot.
I do love Revolution and I've started to develop a few applications
for work (I used to it do in VBA which was a bit limiting) and it's
worked out great so far.
I'm currently about to renew my license for another year and I hope
Rev will become even better during the next year.
Regards,
Fredrik
13 aug 2009 kl. 20.43 skrev Richmond Mathewson:
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First of all; in computer programming languages everything
must be explicitly stated, while in human languages so much
is implicit, or is encoded in non-verbal ways.
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IFF, Runtime Revolution want to carry on appealing to the
Saturday-afternoon hobbyist crowd then 'English-like' might
be OK.
BUT, I wonder (apart from the Las Vegas Drive-In Wedding Chapel)
how many people who are prepared to pay £125 are Saturday-afternoon
hobbyists.
While I DON'T think revTalk sounds like kiddy-time (although it does
sound a bit like the Synod of the Church of Scotland), I do think
that the continued emphasis on 'English-like' maybe a mistake . . .
especially as so much of the more recherche revTalk scripts look
nothing like English. . . :)
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