On 12/6/09 2:30 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
And of course, this is something everybody has been saying now since
at least the 2nd Monterey conference. It may not be enough to make
available a free product that just dumps you straight into the world
of scripting. Even Hypercard didn't do that! It provided a very and
gentle graceful path to the world of making your own stuff, and that
is perhaps part of the reason for it becoming as successful as it did.
Well said, Judy!
What is perhaps needed, along with Free RevMedia, is a suite of little
programs that
can be popped together without any scripting at all, and, maybe, a stack
with a set
of 'moronic' buttons (go back, go next, go prev, etc.) for copy-pasting.
There is a problem, and I feel it is this:
There need to be 2 completely distinct RunRev websites:
1. All-singing-all-dancing programmers' website selling Studio and
Enterprise with
all sorts of comparisons between RunRev and other programming
'arrangements'
(using that term to avoid the continuum between
languages-qua-languages and
the visual drag-n-drop-n-no-scripting-at-all type of stuff).
2. A dedicated RevMedia site (which, of course, would 'push' Studio)
which down-plays
the geeky-scripty sort of stuff and concentrates on the "gentle
graceful path to the world
of making your own stuff"; and, while I am in a complimentary mood;
Judy, that really is
a super way of putting things.
I also believe that the Folks at RunRev cannot quite decide which way to
jump.
There really doesn't have to be a decision; with a bit of thought they
can cut the legs from
under HyperStudio and Co. as well as some of the "real" programming
arrangements.
Grrrrr . . . HyperStudio should be history by now. I don't know why, but
Wagner's product
(now being peddled by MacKiev) reminds me so much of cheap, Chinese
imitations of
LEGO. It is the old problem (c.f. Windows versus Linux); let's pay for a
second-rate
product (HyperStudio) when there is something quite considerably better
for free
(RevMedia).
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