On 11/2/04 12:27 am, Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope. I'm with those who say to RunRev, "The syntax is beautiful. We > don't care if 'real programmers' (whoever *they* are) think it's > amateurish. We'll be happy to keep making a living by writing apps > faster and cheaper than all those professionals do because we have a > language that thinks like we do, not like the compiler does."
The syntax is neither amateurish, nor only for beginners. The English-like nature of our language is one of our product's key differentiators and is appreciated by beginners and professionals alike. If you have a lot of programming experience background it make take a little getting used to. However I've seen this pattern again and again: once you are used to it, you don't tend to want to go back. Not only would adding the ability to code in other ways be a huge use of resources best spent fixing bugs and polishing the feature set, it would remove one of our key benefits. We believe programming should be like creativity, like drawing or writing, not like arcane. There is no inherent reason that philosophy can't equally apply to the professional as to the beginner. No matter how used you get to C, PERL, Java, etc., at the end of the day, code written in Transcript is a lot more readable. We're not about to spend time making our virtually self-commenting code like other programming languages for no other reason than to be like other languages. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution - User-Centric Development Tools _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
