On 15 Nov 2006, at 13:29, Bernard Devlin wrote:
Dave said:
>>
I can't believe you called me pessimistic! I find this post to very
pessimistic basically saying it's a toy, don't try to make it
mainstream, give up now cos it will never happen!
<<
Please don't put words in my mouth. I didn't call you pessimistic,
and I didn't say Rev was a toy. I'm making Rev a fundamental part
of my business - of course I don't think it's a toy.
I said you cannot expect Rev to have the kind of mindshare or
widespread use of Javascript,Perl or even Applescript. Applescript
is right there on the desktop as a development tool on millions of
Macs. You can buy umpteen books on it on Amazon, and several video
training cds also on Amazon; you can get training courses by many
different providers in different continents (including Apple
itself). Many other Mac products expose Applescript functionality,
serving to further increase awareness of it. Yet Applescript
itself is hardly mainstream. A search on Jobserve for jobs
requiring particular languages results in this: applescript =
2,ruby = 34, php = 426, perl = 676 javascript = 1109, visual basic
= 1563, java = 3657.
Exactly! Since you can better control AppleScript, JavaScript/ etc.
from RunRev than (say) RealBasic you can sell into that market as an
add-on which is what I am doing in some cases. If you do it right you
will get a user base of your product corresponding to the user base
of the other technology (e.g. 2% of AppleScript , 3% of JavaScript
etc.),.
Given those figures, how do you propose within 20 years to make Rev
into a mainstream language (say, on the level of Perl, to take
something that is not at either end of that list of vacancies)?
I'd fix all known bugs in a new release and then promptly fix any
that come up in the future and offer free updates for at least a
year, and a deal on an upgrade for 2 years.
I'd then promote it the same manner they do now.
All the Best
Dave
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