Now, I do know of some areas where REV won't work. My client has a proprietary hardware device with limited memory available and codes in C. REV has too large of a footprint for this. BUT I am currently designing a fast development tool for testing the software for use in those devices. Right now it takes them 3-6 months to 'try' a new approach in their system and with a REV version on the desktop they can test functionality changes in a few days or weeks. Once i am done I plan on selling it to them and showing them how they can increase time to market by testing first in my product and then porting/coding in C for the final install.
I am very excited about this because if I do this in REV then I can add modules to it for them to use as presentation materials and other neat things right from the start.
Tom
On Feb 25, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:
has been testing Revolution for a couple of hours and looks a little bit
inmature
Hi Jose,
Looks can be deceiving: there is power in simplicity.
I have used Transcript to create a generic, hierarchical, client/server database. I am working on a project to convert to Transcript an existing suite of HyperTalk business applications, currently installed throughout North America & in New Zealand. I am also in the process of converting a HyperTalk wine production control system to Transcript that, when completed will be marketed world-wide in a single, multi-lingual, user-translatable version.
The stack script of Serendipity Library is now approaching 5,000 lines, and someone recently mentioned maintaining a script in excess of 8,000 lines. Add up all the scripts of all the objects involved in either application, and I expect you will get a non-trivial result.
To paraphrase a comment I posted previously: as former chair of the local MUG's HyperTalk SIG, I have seen "real" (as in "working") applications created in HyperTalk by people with no prior programming experience; people who in my estimation couldn't write one small routine in C. So which is more immature in terms of software development evolution, an environment that nobody but the initiated can use at all, or an environment where even non-IS grads can create software that is meaningful to them? If I showed you an oil painting done by a 10 year old, could you judge whether the oils & brushes used were suitable for a professional artist?
Focus your evaluation on capabilities, not syntax. --
Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm
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