But a colleague who is a VB guru and HyperCard-knowledgeable and I spent about a month last year looking at what it would take to write a translator or even good conversion documentation to enable VBers to switch to Rev. It is, as we say in the software biz, a non-trivial task. The programming paradigms are just so completely different that it did not appear to us that we could achieve anything resembling even 50% automation of the process. RB, which after all uses the same basic (pun intended) language and development paradigm as VB, is in a much better position to capture those refugees than RR is.
I have my own theories about the best audiences for RR to pursue, and I won't burden the list with them because I don't get to vote anyway, but those abandoning VB isn't on my list.
dan
On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
6K - 6.5K of VB transferees would be an important number to Rev. I wonder how many of those users would have switched to Rev instead of RB had a translator like that been created for Rev. Is this feature important to me? Nope. I am just curious.
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