From: Ed McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/02/11 Wed AM 09:37:31 EST > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: <no subject> > > Dan said: > > I've resisted comment as long as I can. It's torture. > > Most of my feelings have been expressed by others, but there is one > point that I think is perhaps under-appreciated. > > The notion that we should add to the Transcript syntax to make the > program less "beginnerish" (which I agree it isn't anyway except > compared to the absolutely incomprehensible C and Perl languages, which > I few as write-only) just because we *can* misses a key point. > > A new person coming into the environment and looking for how to do > something looks at scripts and docs. Unless you not only implement new > and more complex syntax *in addition to* the regular syntax rather than > instead of it, but also do not document it and discourage its use in > scripts a newbie is likely to stumble over while learning, you still > run the risk of alienating new programmers who look at the (let's face > it) ugly C-like syntax and immediately head for REALBasic. The only > other alternative, really, is to resort to levels or layers of access > in a (generally futile but well-intended) effort to hide this stuff > from people for whom it might be dangerous. > > 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." > > Dan out. > > > As an amateur programer/business owner who relies daily on HC stacks which I > constructed over 10 years ago and am now converting to Rev, I consider one > of the most important aspects of an high level X-talk script is that when I > revisit a script years after I wrote it - I can read it and figure out what > I did & now need to do to enhance it. > > I would not have had the time or patience to learn a "real programming > language" and been unable to develop the system I run my business on. > > Now struggling with learning to take my systems onto the internet based on > the principles so aptly demonstrated at the seminar. > > The quality of the professionals contributing to this list is the best > endorsement for Rev. > > Well said Dan > > Ed McCabe
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