Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

2004-02-11 Thread Brian Yennie
- do you really think that the current Rev / MC IDEs allow us to maintain & debug scripts with hundreds or thousands of lines ? Of course not... But Salut, JB, And my I say that I agree wholehearted with every word you wrote...until you ended with the statements I included above: 1. The stack

Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

2004-02-11 Thread Rob Cozens
The strongest argument for the legitimacy of Transcript is an army of well-marketed world-class apps made with it. ...with the Made With Run Rev logo in every About box.:{`) -- Rob Cozens CCW, Serendipity Software Company http://www.oenolog.net/who.htm "And I, which was two fooles, do so grow t

Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

2004-02-11 Thread Rob Cozens
- do you really think that the current Rev / MC IDEs allow us to maintain & debug scripts with hundreds or thousands of lines ? Of course not... But CodeWarrior (for instance) does... So in conclusion, I'm tempted to say that the language itself doesn't look amateurish at all (and DOESN'T need to

Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

2004-02-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: > The main point I want to make is that this discussion about introducing > C-like syntax in x-Talk is totally pointless, especially if the only > goal is to make Transcript look less amateurish... Amen. The strongest argument for the legitimacy of Transcript is an army of well-market

Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (rather long)

2004-02-11 Thread jbv
> > >> because we have a > >> language that thinks like we do, not like the compiler does." > Well, even if I somehow agree with the above sentence (because I more or less understand what it implies), I must confess I don't really like it... IMHO computers and languages DO NOT THINK. Only progra