You can be more specific with more knowledgeable people.
When I travel overseas and people ask where I'm from, I say "The
United States". When people ask in the US, I say "California". If they
live on the west coast, I'll probably say "Los Angeles". If they live
in California, I'll just say "LA". If they live in greater LA, I'll say
"San Dimas". If they live in San Dimas, I'll say "The corner of
Commercial St."
Sometimes "Revolution" is right. Sometimes "Transcript". Transcript
definitely has its place and it is seldom difficult to know when to use
it.
Paul Looney
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Sent: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Is there a more English-like Programming language
than Transcript?
Sivakatirswami wrote:
> We just came back from a two-day NewsTrain conference for
journalists,
> put on by Associated Press and the Knight foundation. We showed our
> Hinduism Today Digital Edition to a few people, one of whom is the
> "critically acclaimed, award winning web developer" Rob Curley (see
robcurley.com) who has helped produce the
> "best news sites on the net" web sites. (right, you may never have
heard > of him... this is in journalism--check out his latest
> production www.naplesnews.com... it's incredible, even if the
content is
> "pop-local" click things under the dot.cool section)
> > This man hired away some of Google's top engineers to join his IT
> team... he pays each one of back end IT team way up in the 6
figures,
> and any intern (he's big on $8/per hour "internology") lucky enough
to
> work with him will leave his team and get 6 figures.
> > OK, so, we have this 2 minute window to talk with him about what
we do
> while he boots up Powerpoint on his 17" Macbook Pro. His first
question
> was: "Hmmm, interesting, what is that coded in?" he's a super geek
and
> didn't care about content--he wanted to know the technology behind
it.
> > I said "Revolution" He said "Hmm never heard of Revolution. Oops
gotta
> go... I'm up next...."
> > I don't think I should to have said "coded in transcipt" at that
moment.
Precisely. No one does, any more than they'd answer "Lingo" when
they're referring to Director.
Like any proprietary language, Transcript cannot be used outside of
the Revolution engine. When talking with outsiders who ask about the
development system it's appropriate and certainly clearer to just use
the name of that system.
But that system includes many parts: language + object model + IDE +
whatever tools you've added. Having a name which describes the language
as distinct from the other parts that make up the Rev development
system is useful for those conversations where the distinction matters,
such as documentation and tutorials aimed at Rev developers.
I've never seen any context where the Transcript programming language
is mentioned without also mentioning the Revolution development system
needed to use it.
This has never been a problem for any of the languages sold by
wonderfully successul companies for decades, and it's never been a
problem for Rev.
--
Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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