As a language junkie I'd say xTalks including Transcript are easily and by far the most English-like programming languages on the planet. Like all languages, it has some constructs that don't come out very English-like but I don't know of any other language that comes close.
And, to answer your opening question, Runtime Revolution is trying hard to get us to call the language Revolution. I'm resisting and I suspect lots of other folks are as well. I consider that a silly and ill-advised terminology change. But in their official literature, it's now Revolution which you program in...er...Revolution. On 8/10/06, David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By the way is Transcript still the official term for Revs programming language? Spent an hour looking for links references and articles on English-like programming languages - looking at the syntax. Found no good links yet. Lots of stuff about COBOL, things about how it was the flavour of the month in the 80's - how good perl is. Here is a nice quote from http://www.whynot.net/ideas/1441: By this, I mean the source file would be something like a text file.. and the interpreter would interpret the english language commands and build a program based on it. The commands for the English Programming Language could be something like this (consider this a raw source file): <begin source> > > First, create a window approximately 75% of the screen size. Then, add > two menus to the top, one File and one Help. Under the File menu, add Exit. > When a user clicks on Exit, the program should exit. Under the help menu, > add a simple About option that describes this program. > > Now create two buttons in the main window (the first one). The first > button should say "Message", and the second one should say "Exit" (without > the quotes). When a user clicks on Message, a message box should pop up > saying "Hello, World!". When the user clicks on the Exit button, the program > should exit. > > <end source> > Now that would be more English-like than Transcript, but to date i cannot find anything much more English-like than the syntax of Transcript. There is some AI stuff like - http://www.softwaretheories.com/Examples/index.html(not a good link) - and Ruslan you there - some older links I had for parsers that took XML - there is an MIT project to create a meta language... but no good links I can find - and certainly nothing solid and useable. So the question is this - is Transcipt the best real programming language out there in terms of it's English-likeness! That is the ease in which a non-programmer, or non-speaker of the computer language can understand it? Help, links, rants and gossip appreciated! _______________________________________________ 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
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