And yet... I am here because I did something for work in VBA for MS Word. It was just too clunky for me. I searched online for "hypercard for windows" because I remembered using hypercard like 12 years ago, and with enough follow-up searching I came upon RunRev.
Getting transferees from experienced VB users might not be so easy - but getting them from folks experimenting with VB, or any other language, could be a reasonable avenue. 'course - I couldn't say just how to go about reaching those who are experimenting with other languages - but there must be a way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:58 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Analyzing competitors - In this case Real Software No doubt the *number* of VB refugees hanging out in RB-Land is an important number and would be even moreso to Rev which has, I suspect, *substantially* fewer users than RB. 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. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
