A.C.T. wrote: <snip>
You would always have to have developers that can "talk transcript", which is not as likely as finding professionals that speak C, C++, Java etc. pp. Personally I find it very hard to "learn" Transcript (being a stubborn Assembler/machine language/C/C++/Shellscript/PHP programmer that hasn't learned anything serious) and currently this might be the reason for me to not use Revolution at all
I am a C, C++ veteran and have coded many large projects through the years. I had my "hands around" Transcript in a few evenings and am working on a "serious" project of which I had a fairly extensive demo ready in a matter of a few weeks that would have taken 6 - 12 months to code in C/C++...For me (as well as *many* others), Transcript was (by far) the easiest environment/language to learn that I've ever encountered in my 20+ year programming career.
to me this is a question of productivity: I have to learn a language that does not give me any benefits over those I am already familiar with AND I would have to limit external developers to those being able to handle this language as well.
With all due respect, if you haven't taken the (short) time to adequately familiarize yourself with Transcript, then IMHO you have reached your conclusions without proper due-diligence. Expose your developers to Rev/Transcript and see that those that embrace it will multiply their productivity by factors that will astound you...in a time frame that will be equally astonishing...
I have NOT abandoned C/C++ (as well as other technologies). I utilize Revolution's externals ability when appropriate, and because of my own productivity gains, have realized the futility of my past practices where I have coded 100% of my projects in 3rd generation languages.
Just .02 from someone who took the time (a few evenings) to embrace Rev/Transcript. NO DISRESPECT intended by that statement Marc, just "a fact" that I have experienced firsthand...I was skeptical too, and astounded *myself* at what I've been accomplishing utilizing this new programming model (Rev + externals).
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