So I rushed out to the shop to buy MacUser because of the article on RR....
I left the mag on the shelf (tight wad) because, although MacUser did award RR the mice I thought the article was pretty feeble and did not do RR justice. Now a 4-page spread with lots of juicy pix of a prog. in development would have said a lot more than MacUser's rather stuffy text. If RR is, as MacUser claims, programming for the non-geeky; as we all know it is (honestly, I'm not geeky) then it should have been backed up with images of drag-and-drop and object programming. Reading the article I felt rather sad because it singularly failed to give an impression of the passion one could rapidly feel when 'fooling around' with RR. About 11 years ago I was doing an MA at a university in the US when my wife and I bought a Macintosh from a Montgomery Ward shop (Europeans need to think of big supermarkets) because it was the cheapest machine we could get our hands on ($1500). We cracked open the box and there was HYPERCARD....and suddenly the depression created by years of MiniFortran, Fortran 4, Pascal, Zilog and Basic went flying out the window, and, Oh Boy, within an hour I had something semi-respectable up and running. When Hypercard was allowed to die (Mr Jobs is a rat!) I was very sad and got lumbered with TOOLBOOK. So, on returning to Scotland after many years abroad, as well as the rain, the snow, the greasy food, the narrow mindedness, and so forth; there was Runtime Revolution; which was an even bigger kick than Hypercard. MacUser has no passion, no balls, and, frankly, would not make me interested in RR at all! So no mice at all to MacUser for their article. Come on, fight me, disagree with me, feedback ........ intellectual ferment. Richmond Mathewson --------------------------------------------------------------- Great Macintosh Products The MacLaunch Store! http://www.maclaunch.com/cgi-launch/store/agora.cgi --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
