What possible competitive advantage does it offer to the company for it to transform Transcript into yet another bit player in a very major league?
With it being an x-Talk, it offers certain advantages, such as ease of learning/reading, that are all but nonexistant in your "traditional" programming languages. As such, it is a big player in a small league, but it's almost completely a league of its own, a league that the company has reported it finds profitable. If, as we've often discussed, Rev is unable to compete with C++/Java/dot.notation.flavor.of.the.month because of its very different paradigm, how would making it over into just another minor OO language make it more competitive? I've said it before and will say it again: If true OO is what you really want, why not just use one of the bazillion OO languages? Once Lingo went down that route, it ceased to be a learnable language for ordinary humans. And, as for OO being OPTIONAL in Rev, remember that it was optional in Lingo, too. Only, every single Lingo book on the market dealt in dot.speak, not verbose speak. Code fragments that floated about for public consumption tended to be dot.speak, not verbose speak. Remember the guy who not long ago wrote to the list who had problems possibly with case statements and pWhiches? What's going to happen when those new users have a problem and everybody responds in dot.speak? OPTIONAL dot.speak I fear will end Transcript's natural-language orientation. Judy > >> .this.that.thatotherthing.IsThisParticularDotSupposedToBeAMethodOrAnObject.Sh > >> ootMeNow _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
